Below is an excerpt from a message delivered in ESR worship on Thursday, May 2, by Bethany Theological Seminary and Earlham School of Religion's Seminaries Librarian Jane Pinzino:

It is from a place of self-trust that relationship trust becomes possible, trust in another, trust in others. In the gripping words of Martin Buber, “Each of us wishes to be confirmed in our being by another, and we wish to have a presence in the being of the other . . . secretly and bashfully we watch for a YES which allows us to be, and which can come to us only from one human person to another.” And a recent thinker goes on, “The irony is that when we are standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected.  That is the paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you (Brené Brown).”

You can read more from Jane here: http://esrquaker.blogspot.com/2013/05/trust-its-daily-practice.html