Live and learn

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. ~William Newton Clark~

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel~

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move. ~Dr. Robert H. Schuller~

My last adoption taught me a lot about patience. Patience is waiting contentedly. I learned a lot about that. This adoption will be a bit of a test to see if I can apply it! Yesterday I noted to some fellow adopters, 'now that my paperwork is in, I can sit back and enjoy the wait'. I am not going to say more about that, only that I hope I have learned my lesson about patience, and I hope I can prove it well to myself in this adoption.

This adoption appears to be teaching me about faith. I am trying to settle into that. I am not sure how to frame it up to write about it. The fine folks at Dictonary.com define faith in many ways, but the these three resonate with me the most:

1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability
2. belief that is not based on proof
3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion


(order listed as stated at dictonary.com, not in order of importance :-)

I am going to ponder these definitions for a while.