Life is short, shorter as each day comes and goes. But our lives are suspended in the middle of a vast eternity of possibility. Faith is essential, if faith is the opposite of fear. I can open my eyes and sail into the future or I can close them and be seized by the future. In either case, the future will come.
Faith gives eyes.
Fear brings blindness. In either case, the world marches on. We are dragged through time eyes closed, or we dance through time eyes open. Faith, whenever it occurs, is a kind of an awakening. As we rub our waking eyes of faith, sleep gradually begins to leave us and we see things moving.