Faith hope and Love

It has been on my mind some time about these three words which are near the top of the core beliefs 'essential' to the Christian life. Here lately, I have been thinking about faith, specifically do I have faith that my dad will receive healing. Oh how I desperately I long for the healing to come, every ounce of my mind, body and spirit groan for the light of Christ to invade his body and bring it to a fullness of his youth. Then I started thinking, this is Faith. A hope of things unseen. Hope is "a feeling or desire for something to happen" which is exactly the fuel that lights my prayers--- my faith is stretching to place is hasn't been. It is being pulled into a deeper reality of things seen or experienced at a given time. My faith is only because of the Love of Christ. The love that has been shown to me in the community in which I live. When I think of Christ and his love, I often go to Matthew and read the story where he is walking around the city and see's the lame and affected (spiritually and Physically) and the texts says he had compassion for them. The greek word their isn't "a feeling sorry for" or "a compassion that was empty" but rather it was a "moving of the bowels compassion." Christ, deep within himself, his human body--felt compassion and it caused him to act. The compassion, this love, is where I find my faith. This place where my sin is so evident and Christ hand reaches me. This place where I am the whore Gomer and Hosea always comes back to me and ask for my hand in marriage. This place where my faith begins is my acknowledgment of His love that covers me. This Faith is where Healing comes.
So as I write these words, my faith is being renewed. My spirit leans on this love that I find in Christ which is played out in the lives of those around me, in family and friends. As I write these words my spirit groans for healing to come, will you groan with me? Groan for things unseen, for a living hope, for an alternative to the life of this reality.