Cao Nguyen Huy Hoang
Sarah Kirchner
Hoang:
"For a lower middle income family, faith has always been at play in our future. Faith in the economy, faith in luck, and faith in the abilities of this family’s sons and daughters.
When faith becomes an expectation, almost a burden, does it remain relevant to as a value anymore. If our mother, uncles, and aunts are devout catholics, we have become devout atheist.
Faith doesn’t come in the incon of a religion anymore. Actually, I don’t understand a conception of faith ever since childhood. To our parents it was faith in us, to us it was duty and responsibility to keep pur heads down and live out that faith; whether that was what we wanted or not.
Like you, I feel like I have to straddle the line to keep and while losing faith at the same time. Only, this faith isn’t among us, it is among something we don’t understand. A better life perhaps? A better life."
When faith becomes an expectation, almost a burden, does it remain relevant to as a value anymore. If our mother, uncles, and aunts are devout catholics, we have become devout atheist.
Faith doesn’t come in the incon of a religion anymore. Actually, I don’t understand a conception of faith ever since childhood. To our parents it was faith in us, to us it was duty and responsibility to keep pur heads down and live out that faith; whether that was what we wanted or not.
Like you, I feel like I have to straddle the line to keep and while losing faith at the same time. Only, this faith isn’t among us, it is among something we don’t understand. A better life perhaps? A better life."
Sarah:
"My Faith is really being challenged this week.
The timing of the values is sometimes very confronting. This week we talk about faith whilst the world once again feels like its going to shit.
There is always conflicts but it comes more apparent when it personally affects you or the people close to you.
Nowdays I mostly consciously decide to not follow the news because it affects me too much. Some would call it ignorance, others would call it self protection. Where is the balance between being informed and just getting fucked up on all the misery?
I want to hold on to my faith in humanity and the world.
My solution for the moment is to focus on being kind and understanding to the people around me and focus on what I can do in the moment and my immediate surroundings.
Small actions can be the most meaningful and impactful.
I like to think of kindness as a seed that you plant and even under harsh conditions there is a chance that it grows into a strong plant. Think of dandelion and how it can grow through concrete."
"My Faith is really being challenged this week.
The timing of the values is sometimes very confronting. This week we talk about faith whilst the world once again feels like its going to shit.
There is always conflicts but it comes more apparent when it personally affects you or the people close to you.
Nowdays I mostly consciously decide to not follow the news because it affects me too much. Some would call it ignorance, others would call it self protection. Where is the balance between being informed and just getting fucked up on all the misery?
I want to hold on to my faith in humanity and the world.
My solution for the moment is to focus on being kind and understanding to the people around me and focus on what I can do in the moment and my immediate surroundings.
Small actions can be the most meaningful and impactful.
I like to think of kindness as a seed that you plant and even under harsh conditions there is a chance that it grows into a strong plant. Think of dandelion and how it can grow through concrete."