Pragmatic Faith
Coins cast in a fountain with wishes voiced above–
requests for fame or money, beauty, health or love.
Do those who make the wishes have faith they will come true?
If so, what difference from the prayer whispered from a pew?
Twenty years thereafter, what wishes still remain?
Do we again repeat these things that we’ve wished in vain?
Do we still have faith in magical solutions
via coins subjected to watery ablutions?
Fantasy may have its place in fairy tales and dreams,
but it rarely helps us to achieve life’s major schemes.
Santa Claus and fairies, the Easter Bunny, elves?
Far better that we base our faith mainly in ourselves.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/three-coins-in-the-fountain/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
What a pretty little water garden!
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It is my friend Audrey’s. It and the entire garden are completely due to her design and hard work. With a solar pump to circulate the water, guess it qualifies as a fountain of sorts.
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Faith in ourselves, but also just faith- remembering that things are not in our control
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Thought provoking post, Judy. Hope keeps us alive.
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I’ve always been interested in which wishes fade and which ones stay strong. And which ones we make come true.
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