There are many that simply can’t or won’t understand the concept of faith. For some, it might be something they’d like to grasp, but feel they can’t somehow. For others, no faith is good faith, specifically on a spiritual level – belief in a higher power is no better than belief in the Tooth Fairy.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. – Hebrews 11:1

Faith, noun. Confidence or trust in a person or thing; belief that is not based on proof.

In some aggressive cases, those who profess to be staunchly atheistic or spiritually agnostic will condemn spiritual/religious/faithful people as ignorant, unintelligent, blind to reality, et cetera – that those with a belief in a higher power are socially inept, lacking essential common sense. Some atheists/agnostics (and I reiterate that such cases aren’t the norm) make it known that since they can’t understand faith’s value to people, it’s incomprehensible that it makes sense for anyone to subscribe to it.

I feel like to experience the spiritual, truth-based faith that is out there requires a special sense – like our usual 5. The sense to understand what we cannot see or explain in words isn’t something that we’re born with or without; it’s something that requires strengthening and commitment.

How would you explain color to someone who’s been blind from birth? Music to someone who’s never been able to hear? The tropics to someone who’s always known a life in ice and snow?

Maybe those of us with faith aren’t the ones who are missing out.