In the moment, we’re always entering that unknown. And we do what we do, because it’s what we feel we need to do. But that is quite a task. So we keep connecting to something that will energize us and keep us going—our values, a vision of life as it might look, those who have come before us, and one another.

Having faith is admitting that you don’t have all the answers for what comes next. Another phrase I’ve found useful to describe this state of mind is what the spiritual teacher Tara Brach calls “radical acceptance,” which she says “is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.”