Trust is an interesting thing. It builds slowly over time. Each conversation, each part of life shared, each intimacy builds a block. You believe after months and hours of conversation, that you are standing on a firm foundation. You share the pain from your life. You give of your strengths and your weaknesses. You tell your hopes and your dreams. You listen, you care, you walk through each day together. Everything inside you is opened up and disclosed, vulnerable, raw - given to Him. Until you achieve the level of ultimate trust and complete connection with another person that you never knew could even exist.
And then you learn of the betrayals and the lies. Suddenly that foundation collapses under your feet. You lie broken and battered at the bottom. Confused and suddenly alone. There is nothing left of the trust you worked so long to establish except dust scattered around you.
Trust is an interesting thing. It is the foundation, the glue that holds us together. It can bind us so tightly we will never let go. But the bond that takes months to build takes only an instant to destroy. Trust is such a delicate thing upon which we place our hearts.
