have faith?

Indeed "you never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you"..

Oh.. the pains and agony of this world, its evil trickeries and unkindness..

of children being abducted - your child?
of losing a mother in a tsunami - your mother?
of death sentences by cancer in a father - your father?
of the shooting of a brother in a terror attack - your brother?
of losing husbands to meaningless wars - your husband?
of blood shedding of a best friend in road traffic accidents - your best friend?

and sometimes, present love in the world makes it all better for a minute or two. more often than not, its presence feels like a soft, warm, comforting and positive wrap around your clammy, cold body. but is it one that stays? endures? holds on? grows? what do you do when the alarm goes off and its times up for you? what next, do you hold on to..?

M