Trust

The reading from Psalms this week is a meditation on trust.  

I like the word trust.  It is heart-felt, rigorous, embodied.  Sometimes trust describes quietness and peace, sometimes a cry for help in crisis.  Intellectual belief can be maintained at a distance.  Trust requires a relationship.  Someone who trusts God “holds fast to me in love” says the Psalmist. 

We live in a culture of distrust.  Family relationships have been weakened, faith in important institutions such as schools, churches, scientific bodies, and governments has diminished, and our future as a society seems uncertain.  

But trust is the foundation of hope.  Without trust, we lose heart, we lose courage, we lack faith.  Thankfully, God has shown himself to be trustworthy.  And His trustworthiness is ours to experience and to share with those around us.