21. The importance of cultivating our interior

 I think that the verb trust is transitive, I mean, you may trust someone, right? 

And also I think with Jutta Burggraf that who trusts God, eventually can trust people, persons I mean. And that person gives another one like a second chance. 

For example a teacher. He or she can have a transcendent view of life, and can trust God. After that he or she will be able to trust their students, although these ones can provoke some distress to that teacher quite often. 

And when reprimanding a disruptive kid aside, not in public, that teacher will likely give the kid a second chance: the teacher by no means will toss or disqualify the kid. It’s so because that professional trusts God and subsequently trusts men and women. 

He loves God and he loves his students. He believes in men and women. He is not nihilist at all. 

I have seen this in education, and you may have some similar experience of things. The true teacher does not throw out anybody – nobody is to be thrown out or tossed. 

Furthermore the person who trusts God and knows he loves him or her, they may have a nice view of life, and also this I’ve seen it. 

As well that person turns to God when he has some need, even more he talks to and with God just because he loves him. 

There is a collection of meditations for praying and meditating in God’s presence which is called in Spanish Hablar con Dios, something like Talking with God, by Spanish priest Francisco Fernández-Carvajal, which collection amounts to some million copies. It may be a great help for talking to and with God, and has been translated into English, sure thing. I strongly recommend it. Have a nice day.

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