1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.
4. a person on whom or thing on which one relies: God is my trust.
5. the condition of one to whom something has been entrusted.
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The top 1% of lookups? The 308th most popular word on the website? An significantly increased number of lookups over the past seven days? It seems we are heeding Smith’s call after all and immersing ourselves in the word itself, which bodes very well for humanity!
I’d also like to add though, that the definition offered above includes the word “hope” as an explanation-come-extension of the word “Trust”. I actually couldn’t disagree more. When I think of the word hope being expressed in visceral form, I see a dancer standing on the tippiest most tip of her ballet shoes reaching up into the sky, arm outstretched, reaching and yearning for something that exists outside her current realm, praying with her finger-tips that this thing will come to her. In this image, there is always the notion that it may not happen, that she may be disappointed.
In direct contrast, when I think of the word trust being expressed in this visual way, I see the same dancer, or perhaps a different one, sitting on the floor, cross-legged, eyes closed, not in meditation necessarily, but definitely centered and present. She is content and calm and neither yearning nor reaching for anything, for she trusts internally that what she needs is already here, or if it is not, that it is either coming to her or it is not meant to come at all. She is centered. She is calm. She simply is. For she trusts.
That to me is the difference between hope and trust. Take that dictionaries of the world.
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