Faith on the March
Note: Follow-up to previous post, The Operations of Faith
The first summer of the pandemic, we learned that one of my cousins had COVID. Theo asked a lot of questions about who she was and what were her symptoms. Then he started talking about faith, saying that was what was needed. He added that faith has nothing to do with religion.
These were Theo’s exact words (I wrote them down as he said them):
Faith is on the march.
Faith is a symbol of hope.
Faith stands for kindness, friendship, love; it overpowers all rules and regulations, just like love.
When you put the word next to love, faith is the brother of love, and love is the sister, like the moon marrying the sun, when the moon goes down in the west and the sun rises in the east.
Faith can defeat the impossible and make the impossible possible, just like love itself.
Theo made two drawings to illustrate his concepts.
Love: When I asked him to describe the shape, Theo said, "It's like a plant."
I like the fluid form of his drawing and the likening of love to a living plant. Like plants, love is not static but continually in motion, stretching and growing.
Faith: This drawing shows faith on the march, with soldiers with guns advancing toward a "dark entity" (the regular pencil marks). I noted that the army is much larger than the darkness. Asked what the dark entity was, Theo said, "Evil," as if that were obvious.
Theo may not hold with or understand “religion,” but he has a concept of faith, hope, and love as related to each other and capable of overpowering evil.
He continues to amaze me!
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