Placing our faith in someone or something says a lot about who we are and who we want to be. Why we put our faith in people or things is even more telling. We may be looking for security or we may long for someone or something to take away our fear, concern, or worry; we may ache for certainty in an uncertain world, strength when we feel especially vulnerable.
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Where there is vision
Fr. Jan Kevin Schmidt Director, Pastoral Vitality Chapter 29 in the Book of Proverbs, the New American Bible (NAB), the translation we read from at Mass, renders verse 18a: “Without