little bit

A short poem about faith as a deliberate act of participation.

This piece plays with the idea that belief does not always require certainty, evidence, or grand conviction.

Sometimes faith is much smaller than that.

Sometimes it is simply choosing, for a moment, to entertain the possibility that things may unfold differently than fear predicts.

I still smile at this one.

There is something intentionally irreverent about reducing faith to “commit to the bit,” but I also think there is real wisdom hiding inside the joke.

So often the stories we tell ourselves about the future are accepted without scrutiny when they are fearful:

• What if I fail?
• What if I'm too late?
• What if this never changes?

This poem turns that habit around.

Not by insisting everything will work out.

Just by asking a different question:

What if it does?

• Not certainty.
• Not manifestation.
• Not denial.

Just a small willingness to stop treating hopeful outcomes as inherently less believable than painful ones.