Most of us have a jaded, tenuous grasp on trust. We have come out of circumstances, environments, situations and childhoods where trust been broken. When trust is broken at an early age it leaves a deep imprint. The furthest reaching and most common repercussion from this loss is that we no longer trust ourselves. We begin to distrust our instincts, our knowing what is safe and what is unsafe, what is right or wrong-to generally distrust our ability to successfully decide what is good for us and when.
Faith lightens the load.
It is the church within us. Faith points the way through this distrust, the fear and the many mountains to climb. The first major threshold on the way is self-love. Faith holds the bright candle that beckons us forward. Faith is trust internalized.