Faith... the latest recurring theme

Heraclitus

Dictionary Definition:
1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2. Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
3. Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance: keeping faith with one's supporters.
4. Often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will.
5. The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.
6. A set of principles or beliefs.

Faith is often inextricably linked with Religon and yet, in the As Above view, I find it larger and far more complex.

Recently, I was told the true story of a man who would seem to have nothing going well for him: not health or happiness, not employment, seemingly no close relationships, he even had great concern for the safety and security of his home. Outside that home there was a fire hydrant. The man attached his faith to that hydrant. He believed that whatever happened, the hydrant would be there every morning and in the evening returning from his day, whether all things were goodly or poor - the hydrant would be there. Moreover, it was a physical thing that could be seen and touched. Faith, it would seem, manifests itself around constancy.

What is Constant?

Heraclitus (about 540-480 B.C) says:

All is flux, nothing stays still.

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Those were some of his observations almost 2,500 yrs ago; The Bible says this:

Ecclesiastes 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

Schoepenhauer: Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

And last week, Phin sent me this - an article entitled "Scientist Question Nature's Fundamental Laws"

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060711_science_tuesday.html

The gist of the article being that there may be no such thing as a scientific constant.

I've been thinking lately that if Faith is about constancy, the only faith one can truly hold is a Faith that things will change as in "This too shall pass" . I don't even care to assign any hope to that faith. Will the change be better? Worse? I find that in an evolving Universe, I try to walk the shifts keeping my eyes on the Taoist "Maybe".