If you looked at a speck of dirt under a microscope, it would look pretty scary. If you switched and began looking through a magnifying glass instead of the microscope, the view would be less frightening but it would still probably be a bit unsettling. As you move to a position of looking at it with just your eyes, then sitting up, next standing, then progressing rung by rung up a ladder, you would begin to lose sight of that particular speck of dirt and it would just become part of the whole landscape. You may even notice that the, under the microscope scary speck of dirt, is really a contributing part of a beautiful, lush, fragrant garden.

Our lives are exactly like this. We tend to take one thing, person, situation, conversation, relationship… anything… And see it’s totality as we examine it, feel and react to it like the speck of dirt under the microscope. We are so caught up in a microscopic view that we can’t even begin to see a bigger picture much less even consider what another perspective might be.

When people talk about having “faith”, they TALK about believing that their scary speck of dirt is part of a bigger picture, they TALK about knowing there is something more, TALK about the beautiful, lush garden but all the while, their emotions and thoughts are not living from the top of the ladder. Their emotions, thoughts and reactions are caught up in that microscopic view.

Faith that the speck of dirt is part of a beautiful garden has a large aspect that exists in unseen realms. Take wind for example. We can’t actually see the wind, we can only see the effects of the wind. Since we have a word for wind, we can talk about how hard it blows, what direction it is coming from, the effect it is having on other things, etc. But what if we didn’t have a word for wind? We would see the leaves of the trees moving around and probably think that their movement was an aspect inherent in the trees themselves as opposed to something outside, another force interacting with the trees.

Faith is like that:

• It is living with the awareness that the unseen realms are interacting with this creation in ways that we can’t directly “see”.
• Faith is believing in the unseen.
• Faith is learning to read and follow the signs in order to climb higher on the ladder to gain a bigger, more complete understanding of what is really there.
• Faith is trusting in the unfolding of the process.
• Faith is the willingness to continue climbing the rungs of the ladder regardless of what you feel or think.
• Faith is actively looking for the bigger picture, the garden.

Webster’s dictionary says the word “faith” is a noun. I beg to differ. Faith is a verb! When you actively live and bring your awareness to your everyday life, when you are willing to see a bigger picture and climb that ladder one rung at a time, when you are willing to follow the signs that tell you to go against all logic, you actually move from the scary speck of dirt and live in the garden.

Faith is action.

Faith is doing.

Faith is movement.

Faith is a verb!

So let go of your microscope and begin your personal journey from the scary to the garden. Baby steps... It is a process… so enjoy and be imbedded in the process of your personal growth and unfolding.

Do you have faith? Then live that faith as a verb!