Insurance

 A lot of people want faith to be like insurance.  You are covered in case something goes wrong.  Insurance gives you some sense of certainty.  Faith is more about trust.  You live in the Mystery.  When you are aware of the Mystery, then that is prayer, the very awareness.  Here, prayer does not need words or agenda.Your insurance policy is not a Mystery. You have a written contract you can read, with a microscope.  People who want their faith to be about certainty often end up fundamentalists. Certainty does not need faith.  It is certain. Insurance faith is really run on fear.  Fear does not care much for mystery.  Fear prefers more control, thus the need for certainty.  I live in Mystery.  Of this I am certain.