Trust and faith

Trust! Trust yourself. Trust your partners. Trust G-d.

Trusting oneself or one's partners (friends, spouses, neighbors, etc) is problematical and so we test ourselves and others to see if we can trust. Do we analyze issues and come to conclusions which are right? Do our partners do what we want, need, expect?

To trust is to expect something. It is more then hope which lacks the quality of expectation. To trust in G-d is to trust that right and justice and mercy, all together or any one of those will be done. We expect that G-d will do all that is correct. Which combinations or which ones are G-d's to chose and open to our observations and interpretation.  There is uncertainty about what we see and think or feel and when combined with WHEN things are done our trust is often a matter of patiently waiting and waiting and sometimes not realizing in a lifetime.

So, faith is needed. To trust one must have faith. Faith is the absolute basis for knowing anything and as noted in another essay: faith should not be blind although at some point in ones thinking or feeling one comes to a point where ones ability to know is at the edge of an abyss.

Yes an abyss. The abyss is a chasm which cannot be crossed. It is where you step forward and fall and die or where you stop and turn and live. The abyss is the limit of knowledge and capability and talent. It is different for each person and it is real. In some ways the abyss also changes as we move though life and checking on the abyss is part of life.

Trust and faith are linked to the extent each is strong and powerful in our lives. The stronger our faith the more we can trust. In ourselves, our partners, our G-d. The three aspects, me, you, G-d, give us three areas in which to practice having faith and trusting.

To conclude today - it is my great burden to be a person who struggles to trust and who struggles with the faith needed to trust. I hope I can be more comfortable with faith and therefor trust soon!