Who Can You Trust?

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

~~Amos 8:4-7~~Psalm 113~~1 Timothy 2:1-8~~Luke 16:1-13~~

The person who is trustworthy in very small matters
is also trustworthy in great ones;
and the person who is dishonest in very small matters
is also dishonest in great ones.

Being trustworthy is not something you just announce to others.
Being trustworthy is something that you earn.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find people today who are trustworthy.

Like so many other virtues, our society is stepping farther
and farther away from trustworthiness.

Who can you really trust?
It seems everyone is only looking out for themselves.

I think deep down inside we want to trust others
 until something happens and they prove themselves to be otherwise. Ugh!

We expect our doctors, teachers, ministers etc.
to be trustworthy and too many times we discover they fall short.

The thing about trust is that once you have lost trust
in someone it is very difficult to trust them in the future.

 

 

Dishonesty has been part of the human experience from the beginning.
 

 Even Adam and Eve did not want to tell God why they were hiding.
If we were not tainted with sin perhaps we could have been
 better at maintaining our honesty.

...We will diminish the ephah,
add to the shekel,
and fix our scales for cheating! 

 

There are so many ways we can be dishonest.

If we are to live in a manner worthy to our call
then being a trustworthy person
must be one of the virtues we take joy in practicing. 

I pray to always have the grace to be a trustworthy person.
It is important to be trustworthy in small things as well as the larger.
It is no easier to be honest in dealings with our family
than in dealing with the public. 

Trustworthiness is virtue of habit.
Get into the habit of being a trustworthy person
then it will come naturally.
Too bad Pinocchio was just a fairytale.

In God we trust is engraved on our coins as a good reminder...
especially when it comes to dealings with finances
we should endeavor to most trustworthy. 

 

Here is where money becomes evil when you couple
it with a person who is not trustworthy. 

 

 Blessings come in being trustworthy in big and small matters.

 There is never a good reason to not be trustworthy.