there are other people who notice the same things 

that I do. About what kinds if things you may ask?

     Things like, how for being obviously created  for 

being connected to one another as humans...

our world seems to be more and more

dis - connected.

    Do you notice that too?  I don't think its a figment

of my imagination...   While I don't believe 

everything is going that way by design, I do believe

that to a certain degree things are.

     Here's a sort of circular loop, I believe we all 

notice:  Trust is central to we humans. It hinges

on things being predicatable. When you don't know

what to expect...relationships come apart.  Faith- 

or 'trust' seems to be the glue that keeps we 

humans...connected. 

     With that said, here's the circular loop I see:

people hurt others by breaking their agreement to

be predictable. They then maybe, fail to tell the

injured person  that it was a mistake, in other words-

to tell that person they are "sorry". So the other

person no longer trusts them.

     So, the injured person disconnects from the one

who hurt them. Because they don't want to get hurt

again!   The loop is now complete.

     This loop...the loss of trust, I believe, affects ALL

kinds of relationships.  Personal relationships, like

between husbands and wives, parents and children,

friends.   Businesses- like between companies and the

customers they serve, and even that most distasteful of

all businesses...Politics!     Can I get a witness?

     Fraud...the breaking of others trust by promising

them something them you have no intention of giving,

has become normalized!  This is causing a massive

loop...of people not trusting, for example businesses,

and then the businesses, not trusting their customers.

Innocent  people are now being treated with distrust.

Our entire society is finding it easier to treat others as if

they are probably guilty, or fraudsters. I have not been

giving contributions to any political campaign because

quite frankly, I now am finding it harder and harder to

trust ANYONE! 

    This does not bode well for ANYONE...because, like

a cancer, distrust is more difficult to cure than it is to

create.  It touches us ALL.  Have you observed this

trend?

     Here's the GOOD news. I am a follower of my Lord

and Savior Jesus Christ, and He has the answer to

breaking these painful loops of distrust.  Like I observed

earlier, TRUST is the glue that holds ALL relationships

together.  God has given the entire Human Race, HIS

How-To Guide to How to properly connect with one

another.  If you guessed where I was going with this,

and thought the Christian Bible is God's  Book, you are

CORRECT. Be wary of false prophets Jesus warned us.

Be careful who is giving you guidence.  Human wisdom

will fail you, and lead you astray.  Those magazines you

see at supermarket grocery stores?  Are usually not

telling you God's ways. Practically never.

     Well, that's my observation this time.  What do you

think?  Have you noticed the same thing?  It explains a

lot of weird trends we're now seeing.  But I know it is

reversible.

     In our own strength? In our limited, often garbled

human tactics, we cannot fix ourselves, or our World.

But with the LORD Jesus Christ all things are possible.

- Love, in Him,

          from a fellow human & poet, 

                                             David CLURE.