"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
Trust seems to be lost in many these days. Trust in the government, trust in the banks, trust in what we are told, and trust in each other is becoming rare. It's almost a fad to say "I don't trust anyone." Wives don't trust husbands and vice versa. Dads don't trust their kids. Trust itself is an act. Something you demonstrate. Not to trust someone else is to not trust yourself. Some might say the only person you should trust is yourself. So how does someone demonstrate trust to you if you don't trust anyone? Trust in yourself is the most important thing next to trusting your god. Trust in your god is called faith. Faith is believing in something when you don't have any proof it exists. So, truth is an act but it also takes faith. Faith that someone else can be trusted so they can demonstrate they can be. People are afraid to trust. It's seen as a defense mechanism. Nobody needs to perform the way you think, you just need to be OK with it. Being vulnerable is not wrong and scary. It helps you really feel. We are all interconnected. And yes people let you down. People cheat, people make you look stupid, and people can hurt you. People also make you laugh, pick you up when you are down, support you, help you, are loyal, and love you. You can't demonstrate you can trust yourself unless you have someone else you trust. Trust in yourself is not automatic. If it were, nobody would hurt themselves.
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ReplyDeleteThe demonstration of trust comes without words. BoB(Book of Broadnax)#1: If someone states that they trust you they don't. Without words: Someone will excuse themselves from the dinner table for the bathroom and return. There was no timeout for them to state how much they trust you with their purse. Without words: we drop off our children with family. Without words: we leave our homes and trust that it will be intact when we return. We display forms of trust throughout our lives without words without thought.
Some say,the only person that they trust is themselves, but according to BoB, if they need to state that they trust themselves-they don't. They don't trust themselves with the last doughnut, with their wife's best friend, or with their child's piggy bank. To only have trust in self is a flawed concept.
Every Sunday (maybe not every Sunday) Christians praise their lord in church, but Monday through Saturday they trust in the world. One that trust in the lord would remove all worldly ways in fear of judgment.
BoB: Greatest examples of love: When God gave his son to the world. When Jesus gave his life.
Love does not exist by itself, it must be supported to stand. Like a house, the foundation of love is communication, without communication Love will erode. Love is the roof that covers all, communication is the foundation that love is supported by. The pillars that stand on the foundation to support love are: Trust, Sacrifice, Honesty, Loyalty, Friendship.
Some are scared of the word trust because of its association with love.