Learning To Trust / People And Power
Learning to trust The air in which we live is so infected with mistrust that it is almost bringing us to ruin. But wherever we broke through the layer of mistrust, we found there the experience of a trust that had previously not even dreamed of. We have learned to put our lives into the hands of those we trust. Against all the ambiguity in which our acts lives have had to stand we learned to trust unreservedly. We know now that we can really live and work only in such confidence, which always remains a risk, but a risk that is gladly assumed. Trust will always remain for us one of the greatest, rarest, and happiest gift of human life in community, and it can arise only against the dark background of a necessary mistrust. (D. Bonhoeffer)