Hans Kung was a priest and author who shaped people’s faith in the 20th century. In Does God Exist? he makes a fascinating point about nurturing what he called, “enlightened trust.”
“Believing in the Creator of the world means affirming in enlightened trust that the world and man do not remain inexplicable in their ultimate source, that the world and man are not pointlessly hurled from nothing into nothing, but that in their totality they are meaningful and valuable…
Nothing forces me into this faith. I can decide for it absolutely freely. Once I have decided, then this faith changes my position in the world, my attitude to the world; it establishes my fundamental trust and gives concrete shape to my trust in God.”
How would you describe your attitude towards trust?
How might it evolve if you thought of trust as “enlightened”?
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On Emotions 