Somewhere Out There

Everyday somewhere out there, something has changed.
To hate change is to be at odds with reality itself.
And reality always wins.
Today everything around us may seem familiar to us.
Tomorrow it may become something else altogether.


We may believe that we already know enough.
But there's always that missing bit of information we lack.
Someone else's secrets, or things that we cannot comprehend.
Or the things that have changed from the certainty of yesterday.


The fact is that we will never know something in its entirety.
We can only do so much to establish certainty.
And it has taken me so long to learn it.
Fact can only bring us so far.
The rest is up to faith.


It is a fine balance.
We cannot live just on facts alone.
Because we will never something to its full certainty.
That leads to paranoia.
Nor can we live simply on faith.
That is just blunt ignorance.


To live just in faith and without fact.
One day we may become ignorant even of faith itself.


Sometimes the facts become so overwhelming and complex,
That the only logical solution is to step back and look at the bigger picture.
Invoke a bit of simplicity to study complexity.
And in the mean time have a bit of faith to live with uncertainty.
With calm comes understanding.


But of course there will always be those questions that take a painfully long time to answer.
Perhaps we are simply not meant for it yet.
Somewhere deep within us, something is preventing us from making that connection.
Understanding will come with time and maturity.


Somewhere within the shroud of unknown,
You know something is right.
It is difficult to define it, but your heart knows it is there.
Have the faith in that uncertainty, and live in the hope that more will be revealed to you.
For you know what lies there is right.


Fact and faith lives with each other.
Knowledge and wisdom establishes certainty.
And faith conquers the uncertainty that cannot be made certain.