Faith is a Way of Seeing

I've read somewhere that spirituality is most like music.

Some are immediately swept away by the music of Bach and Beethoven.    Many must cultivate an ear for classical music.  Others, tone deaf will never get it.

Now via Maggie's Farm comes a sermon from a pastor who says that people believe more than they know they believe, that  faith is a way of seeing.

Believing is Seeing 

If you say that seeing is believing, you will never be a great scientist; you will not be a creative artist; you will have nothing but superficial relationships, and here is the last thing: If you say that seeing is believing, you will never be a leader.
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Leadership doesn't say, "Prove it to me and then I'll give you my support." Leadership comes in and says, "With faith and trust and openness, we can really make this thing work."

Four things. What is it really that I have said to you? Let me in good homiletical style tell you what I have just told you. It is this: faith is a way of seeing. St. Augustine put it perfectly. He said, "To have faith is to believe what you can't see and the reward of faith is to see what you believe."