Someone very dear to me once asked me, “How can you have faith?”  Now, just reading that question in print, it can be taken a number of ways. On the face of it, that question sounds like a challenge to my intellect, as in “Come on, Larry, how can you have faith? You’re smarter than that!”  Or perhaps it was an acknowledgement of hardships that I was facing at the time, and the question was as much about a sympathetic…