Faith in a Chair

My teacher once told me, faith is not so hard to understand.
Come let us reason together, faith is like sitting in this chair.
You place your faith in this chair every time you take a seat.
The faith that the chair is strong enough to hold you,
It is just the same for your faith in God.
Have faith, take a seat, and see.

But that is not what faith has been to me.

The real faith was placed in the teacher who had his hand on the back of the chair.
The same teacher that pulled the chair out from under me once my full weight was falling.
I looked up at the chair, as strong and trustworthy as ever, yet my back still ached.

The first lessons in faith are easy, like a child learning from play.
The real lessons in faith are as painful as they are unexpected.

Truth is, that chair never really failed me, and faith may be that simple after all.
The teacher, my own pride, convinced me I had it all put together.
I see now, the irony, that pride comes before a fall.

Pain is the most impartial of instructors,
And this was a lesson I was born to learn all along.
Appreciate all the simple faith you can find in this life,
Because if you do not, even the simple faith will be taken from you,
And you will not be able to find it on your own.
Have faith, take a seat, and see.