It may be faith in him or herself to turn around a bad situation. Or it may be the faith that whatever happens is an opportunity to express or be attuned to God s will. From a strictly practical point of view, optimism is a wiser choice, because it allows us to give up worrying. A pessimist may be right, but is usually miserable. When we face life optimistically, even when bad things happen, we can feel relatively OK about them, because we assume that conditions will improve.
Faith requires the ability to trust.
A person of faith trusts that an acceptable outcome can be fashioned from any circumstance. Such a belief can arise from one s own confidence. In this case, trust is placed in one s own ability to adapt, survive, and thrive, even in adversity. On the other hand, the trust may be based on a belief that good will triumph over evil, or that the world or spirit will naturally help us attain a higher good. Faith may rest upon trust in God.