‘The kinds of men and women most likely to engender trust in others… are optimistic but not naïve, good humored but not glad-handers. They have suffered but not been overcome by suffering. They have loved and been loved and known the struggle of trying to be a friend to another. They have friends for whom they care deeply. They have experienced failure and sinfulness- their own and others but seem to be at ease with themselves in a way that indicates and experience of being saved and freed by a power greater than the power of failure and sin. They are relatively unafraid of life with all its light and darkness, all it’s mystery.’ Jesus, please make me like this.
