DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY· MAY 25 · trust

[lildee]

DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY

· MAY 25 ·

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

-Isaac Watts

We are only as healthy as we are able to trust. An inability to trust sentences us to walled-up lives protected from the deceit of others. Such isolated living makes full human recovery impossible.

The task, however, is not to blindly trust. We have done that-to our undoing. The task is to discern who is trustworthy and who is not. Trusting has never led us into trouble, but the people we have chosen to trust have. And then all too often we have demanded unshakable loyalty from ourselves toward that untrustworthy person.

Trust must be earned. Our discipline is not to blindly trust others but to patiently wait to see if they have earned that treasured gift from us. Our goal must be to wisely discern who is trustworthy and who is not.

I am learning to trust myself as I grow in emotional stability. As I learn to trust myself, I am better able to determine when and when not to place my trust in others.

[caressa222]

Had to renew my trust and belief in my God, and through that trust, I was able to trust myself. In turn I was able to trust others. At first my trust was conditional, and bartered, which are forms of grief. We grieve our lost trust and faith and move beyond those old tapes.