Why is faith so important? ( 2 paragraph essay)

Many of us say that we have faith, but when the chips are really down, the sky is most dark, and all seems hopeless, … I mean really hopeless … do we really? I didn’t, and it was a terrible mistake. I hope you will think about my comments here, and if you have young children, raise appropriate points with them as they are growing up.
Part of my talk about drugs, “The Dangers of Drugs – what YOU Should Know” touches on this topic, but I have decided to write this short essay solely on this subject. My hope is that it will reinforce YOUR faith.

Although I had the world’s best parent’s (by any definition), a great education, wonderful teachers and mentors, grew up in the church, was an acolyte, and thought I had faith, until age 44 nobody had ever prepared me a for an unexpected calamity. I certainly never expected any super serious problem. I had been successful in everything I did, blessed with much success in business and law, and simply was not prepared when disaster struck. My parents and others had always told me to do my best, expect the best, and all that sort of thing.

Nobody warned me that some unexpected, undreamed of, very sad, negative development might come along. I’m not talking about the sudden loss of a loved one in a car accident; we all understand that this sort of thing might happen. I’m talking about situations which we never thought might happen, and when they did our first thought might have been that all is lost, that there is no hope.