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Thinking Out Loud: What Have You Done Today to Earn Another’s Trust?

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Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Harper Lee’s  work, To Kill a Mockingbird.

“We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Note: One can’t order trust online. Nor can one expect somebody to trust him/her without first earning that trust. Trust results from the accumulation of hundreds of small action. It only takes one act to destroy all the previous good acts. Once lost, it’s difficult to regain another’s trust. Trust is an imprint on one’s character. It’s indelible. We earn another’s trust by keeping our word, standing on trusted values, and never taking the cowards way out when facing difficult challenges.

An Inspiring Quotation by St. Teresa of Avila

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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Teresa of Avila

Today’s Inspiring Photo ~ Trust Love

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Know Where You Going – A Quote by Bill Walsh

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Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Bill Walsh

Thinking Out Loud ~ A Lesson from Aesop’s Fable

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Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Aesop’s Fable, The Farmer and His Sons. Aesop’s Fables is available for free download here.

The Fable

“A Farmer, being at death’s door, and desiring to impart to his

Sons a secret of much moment, called them round him and said, “My

sons, I am shortly about to die; I would have you know, therefore,

that in my vineyard there lies a hidden treasure. Dig, and you will

find it.” As soon as their father was dead, the Sons took spade and

fork and turned up the soil of the vineyard over and over again, in

their search for the treasure which they supposed to lie buried

there. They found none, however: but the vines, after so thorough a

digging, produced a crop such as had never before been seen.”

Note: Has it ever happened to you where you wanted something so badly, didn’t get it, felt disappointed, and sometime later looked back and were happy you didn’t get it? You discovered you got something better. It’s happened to me many times. There were times when I prayed and prayed for something. I was sure God wasn’t listening to me. I discovered later that something better was waiting for me. Something that I could not imagine was possible for me. There ae times when all we can do is to trust and keep on working. It may feel like walking in a dense fog where one can only see a few feet. Don’t give up. Don’t quit. Keep working. Be open to wonderful surprises.

Daily Inspirational Quotes ~ Here’s Hoping You Have Many Good Friends

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“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

—Unknown

Photo for Today ~ Trust Your Heart

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Thinking Out Loud ~ This is Your Time & Place

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You Are Where You Are for a Reason

In his work, Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. ” P. 112

NOTE: We are where we are in time and place. It is in this moment and in this place we find ourselves that we are to contribute our great gift to life. Trust the time, trust the place, open your eyes to the opportunities surrounding you. You’ll know exactly what to do when you listen to the stirrings of your heart.

Photo for the Day

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Thinking Out Loud

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Trust Your Instinct

In today’s post I begin sharing my thoughts as I read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, Self Reliance. Self Reliance can be downloaded for free at qutenbern.org under the titleEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.  According the American Poetry Foundation, “Emerson New was a England preacher, essayist, lecturer, poet, and philosopher—was one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the 19th century in the United States.”

In his work, Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.” P. 110

NOTE: Emerson encourages us to believe in the wisdom of our thoughts. It’s the intuitive sense that assesses the thought and instinctively knows that this thought is the right path. Once our instinct is screaming at us, it us up to us to act upon it. I recall, during my time in academia, searching for a methodology that would benefit one of my doctoral students. I stumbled (or was it serendipity) across a methodology called appreciative inquiry. It made all the difference for my student. And, it made all the difference for me. I made the methodology the central piece of all my research.

 

 

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