Our baptism brings an amazing familiarity with God. We are made sharers in God's own life, members of His family. Living in the awareness of our dependence is the basis of living in faith. The comic section of the Sunday newspaper often contains great wisdom. That's why it's called the present.
Faith is a present because it is a presence.
Although we often see spectacular happenings on TV, our own lives seem mostly hum-drum. Living in faith gifts us with the vision to see that the divine is present in the human. Faith sees something hopeful happening in our daily encounters. Faith opens up aspects of love shining through our hidden behavior. God Is with Us remains the heart of faith.