Trusting In People

Even for some of the more devout, religion is not as essential -- particularly as it might be in the expectation of some theologians.  It might be a guide to life, but life it is not, since life for most people is how they live day to day with one another and that is not a speculative process.  It is how they will be within themselves, and for that we look to our hearts rather than to anything else.  Religion is an aspect and might be an almost constant influence, but it is more the script than it is the performance.  This is probably as it needs to be.  In our society and culture it is not as though it could reasonably be otherwise.  And so, when we offer it and proclaim a particular way of being or believing we might trust it will be received as well as it can be and religion will be as much a part of people's lives as it can be for them.  This means too that we will let that be so, trusting in people as we do in God to provide or recognize that we may not be as able to see as we might like, or to belief as we might wish.