Beyond Trust


 
It began as a quiet Tuesday like any other.  Then it happened...September
11, 2001, two major US cities were attacked: New York (financial center) and
Washington DC (political center).  Terrorists crashed planes into buildings,
killing thousands of people.  Although it happened in the USA, it was an attack
against the world.  Because it was a surprise, against innocent people, it was
an attack on trust.


I think it's important to trust...but that shook me to the core.

Listen to what my mentally handicapped friends say when I asked how this
event changed their trust:

"Why do people do that?  I still trust people those that I know.  People I don't
know I don't trust.  That wasn't right."

"On Tuesday it changed my ideas and trust.  The way that I trust for people
that I care for people and I pray for lots of people."

Maybe you're like the first person and you don't trust other people as much as
before...
Or maybe you're like the second person and you care more and pray more...

A famous author, Dooley, in his book The Night They Burned the Mountain,
wrote:
"I wondered...'How do people live without their faith?'  In whose hands can
they put their troubled selves and the infinity of questions that come to a
man..?"

We need to go beyond trust, to faith...
 

Jim Holcombe
Marion, IA



 

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