How little is your faith

As love moves the sun and the other stars, so true faith moves mountains...

Italian poet, Dante, has it that there is love which moves the sun and the other stars: L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
More than a millennium before, a man who's been believed, not by all people (perhaps we are included here), as the Son of God said that if your faith is the size of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain,"Move from here to there," and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you. Awesome!!!

Both statements about love and faith are not exactly the same, but they are not totally different either. They require hermeneutics which is freed from any reductionism. Love is more than business between man and woman. It is business of universe. That's why Love moves the sun and the other stars. Faith is more than belief systems embedded in our head. It is a system of involvement with the on-going creation of this universe. Therefore, both love and faith are closely related to the universe. To narrow our love and faith within the boundaries of family, country, nation, even planet means to undermine the supremacy of love and faith.

Love becomes the revelation of the Universe and Faith realizes our response to the Universe. This relationship between Love and Faith does not allow us to comprehend the Universe as an abstract object of anonymity. The Universe is not impersonal object whatever we call it: emptiness, happiness, peace, freedom, democracy, etc. The Universe is personal subject who is called God (or its synonyms) by some human beings. Its power, that is, Love, really moves the sun and the other stars and in turn gives power to everything it embraces. Human beings belong to the Universe but they are the only creation who have potentiality to break the law of the Universe, that is, Love.

Why should human beings break the law of the Universe and why do they break the law precisely in the name of love?

If we lack faith, we get too much of ambition to control the Universe. Lack of faith does not kill us, but it castrate our ability to cooperate with the Universe. In that case, we think, we act as if we were the owner and the boss of the Universe. In fact, we do belong to the Universe and so the others, whatever their religions and denominations. To have faith to the Universe means to let other creations be part of the Universe. That's why, in the bottom line, we don't kill, we're not supposed to put other human beings to death.

If we have faith, that is, if we surrender to the Universe, we may receive anything which seems impossible for us but might happen, thanks to the power of the Universe. So the point about faith is that it enables us to entrust the Universe that will apply its principle of subsidiarity: it respects our autonomy and takes over the job that we can't do. Believe it or not!