Hope – “a feeling of expectaton and desire for a certain thing to happen”
Faith – “complete trust or confidence in someone or something”
The distinction between these two words popped into my mind today. They are often used interchangably, considered synomyms. One look at the definitions makes it clear that is not correct. I hope I win the lottery – oh, what the hell, I hope I win the Powerball lottery. Recently, when the Powerball jackpot hit $300,000,000, I read an article that said that my chance of winning the Powerball lottery if I bought one ticket was 1 : 75000,000,000,000,000 — one in 75 quadrillion. I guess it would be possible to have faith that I was going to win at those odds, but it seems more like hope to me, a “desire for a certain thing to happen.” My cynical self could not possibly muster “complete trust or confidnence” at those odds. As evidence of that, I offer that I did not even go buy a ticket.
But all of that is an aside to a question that occurred to me: In my life, what do I have “hope” for and what/who do I have “faith” in?
That may take a while to answer, and I may not like the answer.
It occurs to me... 