Faithfulness
Is this a modern or old-fashioned word would you say? Can you remember the last time you heard it used? Does it belong to fairy tales of the past and the world of the gramophone? Peter Rabbit might have chewed carrots like they were going out of fashion but let us chew on the relevance or otherwise of ‘faithfulness’ for our society today and for our own lives. True enough, the word may belong to a relatively small circle, but the concept is still very much needed. You may struggle to find many examples of this beautiful and most precious attribute lauded in the public arena but you will find many relationships that would have thrived if it was applauded in our private lives. In this era of Tweets, faithfulness is perhaps seen as being a little ‘twee’. How would you value it or quantify it?
- ‘Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires’ – Sheri L Dew