Every winter

"Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last--far off--at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring."

(Alfred Lord Tennyson, from "In Memoriam")


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This is real faith. It admits ignorance. It names itself Agnostic.

Faith and agnosticism are not rivals, they are twins. To have faith is to not know. "We know not anything." What a clear, honest and courageous statement! Fake faith pretends to know. When we have real faith, we know that we do not know.

Nevertheless, we trust. We trust something or someone. We trust Goodness. We give ourselves into the hands of that power that transforms the barrenness of winter into the vitality of spring.

In the Christian tradition we call it the resurrection of Christ. You may call it something else.

I trust that good shall fall to all, and overcome the Fall.