"Do You Stop Believing...?"

I recently watched a movie called Rise of the Guardians, which, despite having nothing to do with religion, had some fairly interesting and powerful messages about faith. For now, I want to focus on something the main character, Jack Frost, says toward the end of the film. When a child said he was worried that he might stop believing in Jack Frost and the other Guardians, Jack asked him "Do you stop believing in the moon when the sun comes up? Or do you stop believing in the sun when clouds block it out?" Naturally, the answer was "No."

Our faith is sometimes challenged by the light of new information or the temporary dimming of our faith. When that happens, it may be tempting to forsake the light entirely or wonder if we ever had any real light at all. But truth is no less valid for the existence of other truths and one source of light isn't dimmed by another. Neither is light permanently dimmed by anything that may cloud our vision of it and that may get between us and the light. There are truths worth holding onto, even when other truths appear or when the truth becomes hard to see. We need to hold on to the light we have and do our best to add to it.

Changing circumstances can make it easy to stop believing, but if we hold on to the light we have and continue to embrace new ones, we can find that there are many lights in the sky, and all of them can offer guidance, even when some of them are temporarily dimmed.