True Faith

True faith can be described as the interrelationship between what is known and what is unknown. Picture a needle and thread sewing together two pieces of material. One piece represents all those things that are known to you. These are the things that you may struggle against, but your reasoning ability and personal attributes contend with these issues. These are the issues in life that you can figure out. You may not like something, but you understand what is happening. The other piece of material represents things that are unknown. These are the matters entirely in the hand of G-d. You don't understand what He is doing. You don't understand what the purpose is of the trial you are experiencing. Now, when you sew these two pieces of material together, the result is faith.

Faith is when you do the very best you can with the abilities and talents you have, and trust the things you don't see or understand to G-d who is all loving and compassionate. He does not act loving; he is loving. He doesn't show compassion, He is compassion. When you can get to a place that you have sewed together these two pieces of material, you are walking in faith.