Faith

The full moon is waning and the prediction of the end of the world has been disproved once again. That these people have a following always makes me shake my head in disbelief. But, I suppose the heart wants what the heart wants. As fallible humans, we put our faith in people and ideas that don't always make sense and cannot be proven or verified. That's the foundation of religion, right? And of love? 

faith or confidence?

I had a discussion with a friend not too long ago about faith vs confidence. I think it started over a comment about having the faith to know you can do something that may seemingly be out of your reach. My argument was that faith is believing in what you cannot see, what cannot be proven; that confidence is what makes you believe you can climb that mountain or write that book or build that building. His argument was that "you have to have faith in your abilities".

What is your definition of faith?