A junior high girl, practicing high jumping in her back yard, did not know that her admiring father was watching. When he asked her, “How high can you jump?” she gave a shrug. “Well, how come you don’t know how high you can jump?” he asked again.

She replied, “Because I haven’t missed yet.”

“Oh,” he said.  “When you finally miss you will know how high you can go?”

“No,” she commented.  “When I do miss, then I’ll know it’s going to be harder from there on up.”

To live in faith is to believe that the future is open, that meaning is possible, and that life is fit for living and for dying and for a destiny beyond both.  To face forward is to trust that in everything God is at work for good for those who love Him.