Faith That Walks Before It Sees
Hebrews 11 opens with a definition that’s both poetic and practical:
“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Then it moves to Abraham—the father of faith—not because he had a plan, but because he obeyed without one.
He left home without knowing where he was going.
He believed in a promise that seemed biologically impossible.
He offered up his son, trusting that God could raise the dead.
This is not blind faith. It’s anchored trust—a trust that walks forward even when the map is blank.
Recovery Insight: The Faith to Walk In
Most people don’t walk into AA with a five-year plan.
They don’t even walk in with a one-month plan.
The only ones who do are often trying to deflect—appease a spouse, a boss, a university lecturer, or a court.
Their plan is to stay just long enough for the heat to die down.
Ironically, AA is full of people who came in with that plan—and stayed for life.
That’s faith.
• Faith is showing up when you have no idea how this works.
• Faith is listening to stories that sound like yours and thinking, maybe I’m not alone.
• Faith is calling a sponsor when your mind is generating justifications for picking up a drink—because you’re down, too up, flat, confused, or just tired.
• Faith is staying sober one day at a time, believing that all these days might add up to a lifetime—even if that seems impossible today.
Like Abraham, the recovering alcoholic walks forward without seeing the full picture.
But they walk anyway.
The Fixer’s Takeaway
Faith is not certainty. It’s walking soberly with trust in those pointing the way—those who’ve walked this path before you.
• It’s the step you take before the path is visible.
• It’s the steps you take when God gifts you trials, tribulations, and mundane moments—and the path looks different than it did yesterday.
• It’s the plan you follow before it feels like yours.
• It’s the trust you place in a fellowship that’s rehearsed deliverance a thousand times.
Abraham didn’t know the destination—but he trusted the Caller.
AA newcomers don’t know the outcome—but they trust the room.
That’s enough.
Faith is not the absence of fear. It’s the decision to walk anyway
Jason Bresnehan
Jason is a fixer—of businesses, of broken momentum, and occasionally of entire spiritual frameworks gone sideways. He speaks fluent boardroom and AA, deploys Catholic doctrine with the subtlety of a scalpel, and isn’t afraid to lace his insights with both war-room metaphors and dad-sermon tenderness.
Founder of Evahan, a consultancy built on the idea that legacy and liquidity don’t need to fight, Jason draws on 30 years of commercial grit, tactical leadership, and emotional radar to help people rebuild what entropy took. He works with companies, communities, and recovery misfits alike—often using the same principles to sort both cap tables and chaotic lives.
He’s finalising his first book—a memoir-in-doctrine forged in the trenches of alcoholic recovery, endurance motorsport obsession, and spiritual trench marches. That book, partly teased on his Pursuit of Luck blog, is the cornerstone of a broader movement to connect practical wisdom with satirical grit, spiritual heat, and a recovery roadmap lined with breadcrumbs and tactical grace.