Where can we place our trust?
Trust is an interesting thing.
We learn trust from our parents and those who are first entrusted with us.
When I was a young mother with four children and pregnant with the fifth, we needed to move to another state because of my husband's job.
A family moved into the neighborhood who had a son the same age as my oldest daughter and she was pregnant with her second child. We became friends.
After her child was born I had reason to question her parenting judgment.
While she did nothing that was technically neglectful or abusive, from the first night home, she would double diaper her baby and not get up in the night to care for him regardless of how much he cried.
He spent most of his time in an infant seat. By the time he was a month old, he stiffened any time he was held and couldn't seem to relax and be cuddled.
As I had my own newborn, I thought that this was unusual.
I moved from the area and never had an opportunity to watch him grow up, but I always wondered about whether or not he ever learned to trust those who said they loved him.
We build trust by taking care of the needs of our children as soon as possible. We feed them when they are hungry, change them when they are wet and hold them when they are frightened or just because we love them.
We have trust in God because we trust those who told us about him. We have come to know Jesus because we trust the evangelists who gave their lives to bring us the Good News.
We trust in the promise, and have hope that we will spend eternity with the Father whose love we have come to know.
