I just read a story about a mother of 11 children who lost her sight during a heart surgery. She simply stated in the story, "I've been given a blessing that someday I'll get my sight back, and I know it will happen."
That, to me, is faith. How scary would it be to wake up from a surgery but to realize you could no longer see? Everything in your life would change. She had been promised her sight would come back, but there were no more specifics than that. I think it would be really hard to keep up that faith when it doesn't come back right away, or within the first year, or the next 5 years.
But faith is what is keeping this woman going. And faith keeps me going too. Heavenly Father gave me the gift of faith so that I could always hope for the future when things in the present weren't going ok. He blessed us to keep looking forward so that we would keep moving forward. He knew that since we could not see what he can see, we would get frustrated. How can this situation get better? He sees how it can, and how it will. We only see what's right in front of us. But with faith, we believe that he will make things better, make us feel better. He has the power to help us all.
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