Faith would embrace me and assure me that soon the heavens would crack open and drench me with love. Faith has become my friend. It is now my soldier, my weapon. You attribute it to their being blessed. Sacrifice isn't easy.
Faith ironically invokes trouble.
The road becomes narrower, the drive more wrenching. Experience wisely teaches that a good life is one full of happiness, living with family and friends. Happiness is crucial to spiritual growth as are people, experiences and events. If you have faith, you can have anything. Everything is possible.