Trust

Good afternoon,
my apologies for not writing the past couple of days; I have been meaning to sit down and write about trust. Trust is about having a belief in someone or something. You have expectations of how something will be, and faith that everything will meet your expectations.

The problem comes when your trust is broken; when you are let down and your expectations aren’t met. The more this occurs, the less you expect. Eventually you get to a point where you have no trust left.

On the withoutwax.tv blog earlier this week, they talked about your “trust meter” being broken ( link ) as part of a “baggage series” they’ve had at Cross Point Church; it is, like all the entries, well written and I like the way it’s explained.

Trust is a fragile thing and it breaks easily. Once broken, it is hard to build up again.

The more relationships we experience where our trust is broken, the more of a culminative effect we feel; we enter each new relationship with less trust. We expect disappointment, we expect to be let down.

My thought for today is to take a moment to look at how we see our relationships. Can we trust easily, or have we had our “trust meter” broken? Have our expectations been damaged by our past? Can we do anything about it?

There is always something that we can do. The first thing is to recognise that we have a problem; the second is to communicate with others, to be open and allow trust to build – to realize that the people in our lives are not necessarily the same as the ones who betrayed our trust in the past. Not to be blind to signs and ignore suspicions, but to air them in a calm and rational manner. To give people a chance.

I definitely recommend you read the withoutwax.tv blog entry linked to, and consider adding it to your bloglines or favorites list.

Thank you for reading,
have a good day.
Salv.

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