Faith can be a heavy and oftentimes loaded subject. I find myself reflecting on this subject quite a bit lately around the holidays, and with so many different faiths being represented in so many beautiful ways around the World. 

     Faith comes in so many different packages, shapes and sizes. It can be the cornerstone of your existence or just a small pebble on your rock wall of life. It can be stuff that wars are fought for, religions are based, households are run and marriages are built. Private and religious schools are still allowed to separately assemble based on their different faiths, & you certainly have to tow a different a line than you did once before when it comes to things like praying in schools. Even the Pledge of Allegiance is up for debate over God’s place in it all. 

    But where does this leave the rest of us? Those of us who don’t run on “blind faith” but don’t go around evangelizing to every Tom, Dick and Harry we meet about “The Second Coming” either? 

     George Michael said in his song “Faith”, “before this river becomes and ocean…I’ll reconsider my foolish notion, because I’ve got to have faith”. 

     Is there a place for us all to exist peacefully and pray or reflect, chant or bow to whom ever it is we choose to put our faith in? I’d like to think so. The answer is not to exclude and divide, but to include, and inform. Learn, teach, love, and remember that in the beginning it all started with two brothers. My World is certainly big enough for it and hopefully yours is too. And that is just “the good stuff.”