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Faith is a funny thing. If I were to tell my wife, “I have faith in you”, I wouldn’t be making a statement about whether I believe in her existence, or commenting on the nature of a certain aspect of her specific being. Rather, I would be sharing with her my confidence in the quality of the person she has become. I’ve known her for a long time and I trust her character. My faith in her begins with our relationship // I’ve always gravitated toward the intellectual side of spiritual life. I truly enjoy philosophy and theology; thinking, reading, and debating feels pretty natural to me. This can be a good thing, but it’s always a bit like chasing your own tail: every answer just leads to another question. At this point in my life, I don’t think that, at its heart, faith is really about believing a certain set of facts. The knowledge I can gain through logic is wonderful, but it is not enough. For me, faith also requires the type of knowledge that you can only get through the experience of living with someone // This has proven to be more difficult, for God has not revealed Himself to me in ways that are obvious or grandiose. As the journey of my life has unfolded, I’ve had to learn how to listen. In my experience, God’s revelation is usually pretty quiet, and nearly always clouded by uncertainty. I’ve come to know more about who God is by experiencing who God is, but there are still many wide gaps in this experience. I struggle with trusting God’s character. I would like to know Him as well as I know my wife. Maybe one day. But in the meantime, in the absence of a complete experiential knowledge of God, I am faced with a question: “Do I dare have the courage to hope for that which remains hidden?” Sometimes I do. Sometimes I do not. This is my faith // I’ve tried to write songs honestly about my life. I do not claim to know how God reveals Himself to others; my songs are the product of my own journey to become someone I believe God is calling me to be. I hope this music inspires others who, like me, struggle with “finding the courage to hope.”