Faith in the future

Sometimes we wonder why we are not allowed to know what is going to happen to us, why we cannot know the future.

Imagine for a second, that you were given all of the information about everything that was going to happen to you in your entire life. Imagine you suddenly knew every thought you would have in the future, every good, bad and ugly situation you would go through.

Then imagine that you had to live all that, knowing what would happen, knowing how you would feel, knowing what was to come. It would be like experiencing it all twice. First of all, would you really want to go back and re-live all of that over again? Let's take just the last week as an example, knowing what happened, just in the last week, would you really want to go back and re-live or re-experience that? Who really wants to go back after already having the experience? You might think, 'there are a couple of moments I would like to re-live', and if you flip that, there would also be a couple of moments you would not like to re-live. That is a part of life. The weeks, phases, eras that we go through in life are both rewarding and exhausting. Would you always want to know what was coming, really? Or is it better not knowing, because then you can have faith that it will all work out. This gives you hope for the future. Let's say you had other information, for example you knew that lots of good was coming, but a couple of bad things were coming too. Which ones would you focus on, think about, ruminate over and try to change? How much would you be able to enjoy the good times, knowing the few bad things that would be coming (even if the good far outweighed the bad)? Perhaps this is the answer as to why we cannot see the future. Perhaps that is a gift. We might get glimpses, such as dreams or deja vu, but sometimes, quite often, what we think is going to happen, doesn't. Often we dream something, then the opposite thing happens, and so we can never really predict anything. Perhaps this is our blessing. Not knowing, could actually allow us to experience faith and trust. Without the 'veil' of not knowing (I.e. if we knew everything) you would have full knowledge and awareness, and therefore there would be no need for faith or trust, because if you already know, then why do you need faith? In fact, what is the point? What are you going to learn? How would you ever grow? Faith implies that we do not know, but we trust the path anyway. We trust that we are here, learning all of this, for a reason. Not knowing provides us with unlimited, abundant hope. No matter what the answer is, no matter who or what created us, even if you believe that this was all one big beautiful fluke, maybe the blessing is the ability to have the faith itself.