My brother is becoming interested in a life of faith.
But every time I move in that direction, he says, something completely awful and completely senseless happens.
Like me, my brother struggles with certain words that other people seem to find manageable. Duh. He doesn't even remember our mother.
I looked up one of the words.
Main Entry: trust
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief in something as true, trustworthy
Synonyms: assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, credence, credit, dependence, entrustment, expectation, faith, gospel truth*, hope, positiveness, reliance, stock, store, sureness
Antonyms: disbelief, distrust, mistrust
* = informal/non-formal usage
Interesting sets of words.
2 comments:
Deep childhood wounds seem to stay with us our whole lives, don't they?
The synonyms surprise me. I associate trust with uncertainty: we trust when we are not sure. If we were sure, then it wouldn't be trust, it would be something else.
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