Food For Thought

Sep 04, 2014

It’s no small task to trust someone we can’t see or hear – at least not with our five senses. And yet, since the beginning of Christianity, trust in God has been central to us, as a body of believers and as individuals. Trust is the basis for peace, both in our personal lives and on the world stage. Trust is especially important when we’re faced with a world, a home or any other space filled with violence and strife.

Without trust, or trust in the wrong person or things, said Pope Francis, there is no internal or external peace. “The one who trusts in himself, in his own richness or ideologies, is destined for unhappiness,” he said. “The one who trusts in the Lord, on the other hand, bears fruit even in time of drought.”

We need to ask ourselves, said the pope, “Where do I place my trust? Have I placed it in the Lord or am I a pagan who trusts in things, in idols that I have fashioned? Do I still have a name, or have I begun to lose my name and to identify myself only as ‘I’ with all its variations?”