Day 16 – Informing or Transforming Faith

I was in a workshop yesterday when the instructor asked, “How does your faith inform your teaching?” Less than a handful of people responded and since the asking, my mind has been preoccupied with finding an answer.

I’m not sure the question is quite right. I don’t think faith is an informer as much as it is a transformer. It is the flux of all human activity. We cannot help but behave out of a foundational frame of reference. Our belief system, our faith, shapes who we are and who we are becoming such that our actions align to the axle of beliefs.

We believe that if we jump off a cliff we will be smashed to bits on the rocks below. So we don’t jump unless we are driven to do so by insanity. Insanity is the wobble of an unbalanced wheel about the axle – when our faith and actions don’t line up.