WHAT'S THIS WHOLE RACKET ABOUT FAITH ANYWAY.....???

There's a very lonely path that leads to my home, it's flanked by bushes on both sides, little shrub trees and the occasional  tall trees. I walk this path almost every day after work cos I just love feeling close to nature, even if its for the most fleeting moment, after all the hustle and bustle of the big city.....

Yesterday, I returned from work rather late. You could still glimpse the reddening sun peeping out hesitantly from the horizon, the impatient moon was just beginning to stick out its head in the middle of the sky. It was that twilight moment when the atmosphere is most serene and the suburbs feel like a tiny little bit of heaven... sigh! As I stepped unto the path I felt the therapeutic rush of adrenaline in my veins as the almost intoxicating breeze whishing through the greenery, brushed against my skin .... at the same time I felt a gentle nudging at the corners of my mind and for a fleeting second I hesitated ....

A short distance away, I saw the emerging form of a man, at the same time the sun disappeared from the horizon and the moon sought refuge behind a cloud, plunging the path into premature darkness. My heart skipped one tiny beat but I walked on. He was a local Gbagi man in a dirty Kaftan, yellowish eyes in a sunken face and a sickly grey stubble of a beard ..... I ought to have been scared, no one else was in sight, still I walked on. Then our paths crossed, I smiled and greeted in his native tongue ..."Sannu". He lowered his head and mumbled .... "Yaowah! Sannu Madam". We went our separate ways. I sucked the cool air into my lungs as I felt light with relief.

As I kicked off my shoes and turned on the TV, the news hit me with a bang and made my head spin. I felt sick to the stomach .... "Forty-Five year old man rapes a nine-year-old girl, destroys her bladder..... father of the girl strangled and his body dumped in the gutter by the road side because he refused to keep quiet about the matter" said the voice on the TV. A shiver ran through my spine. Hardly any day passes without news on the internet, TV, radio or other media of gruesome, unutterable and unimaginable happenings everywhere. Aluu killings, Dana Air crash, Synthia and her facebook friends, accidents on every turn, maniacs on the loose, serial killers, strange voodoo, and the list is endless!!!

You and I wake up each morning, step out of the house and begin our daily hustle,
I think that's faith..... who said we'd be alive when the day ends?

You and I walk into a Bank and keep our money there, then we sit down and make plans for its use, I believe that's faith.... who said we'd be alive to spend it and who told us that the money will be there when we need it?

You meet a stranger on the way or at the mall or the market place or in church or at the office, you smile at him/her and extend your hand in friendship, that to me is faith! Who told you that person is sane and won't pull out a dagger and stab you to death? Who told you that he isn't wearing a bomb and is not about to blow you and the rest of the building to pieces?

You drive your car on the busy express and you just know you'll get where you're going,
It can only be faith. Who told you the other persons driving on the same road are sane? Who said their vehicles are in order? Why are you so certain that your vehicle will go in the direction you're steering it to? When you walk on the pedestrian lane of a busy thoroughfare you believe you're safe from the madmen on the road. That's faith... who said one drunk madman won't come crashing into you after flying off the tarmac?

Faith is ingrained in us, a part of our genetic makeup. We were created that way, with a capacity to have insane  and inexplicable faith in ourselves, in others, and in God. But the concept of Faith, haven been taken out of context, has become an enigmatic and controversial ideology that many can no longer grasp or comprehend. But faith is the simplest and most natural concept of all.

If we can surrender ourselves to another person by whatever name called - driver, pilot, bike man - and have so much faith in the fact that they would deliver us safely to our destination, how much more the supreme being that brought us into existence and made it possible for us to have life? Why is faith in him so difficult? Why is faith in the things he can and is willing to do so impossible for some of us. Why does faith suddenly become a strange and incomprehensible concept when it has to do with the creator?

But faith is much more simpler than we think .........
Faith, though so simple, makes the impossible possible.......
Think on these things.....
Be wise.