Faith…is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words

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In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling darkness of not knowing. We speak of the light of reason. I would speak here of the darkness of the world, and the light of _______. But I don’t know what to call it. Maybe hope. Maybe faith, but not a shaped faith— only, say, a gesture, or a continuum of gestures. But probably it is closer to hope, that is more active, and far messier than faith must be. Faith, as I imagine it, is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words. Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer.

~ Mary Oliver, from “Winter Hours” in Upstream: Selected Essays

 

Watercolor: Boyana Petkova (Bulgaria)

17 thoughts on “Faith…is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words”

  1. Faith to me is a belief in something without question. It gives me hope, it makes me try to be kind and giving to the less fortunate, to love and appreciate humanity and nature in all it’s glory. It is my light in my darkest hour.
    Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with peace and joy.

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