Trust Structures vs the Anatomy of Trust
At every moment, chosen or not, we are all in the process of being formed into something- for better or for worse. I shudder to take a slice of time out of my day, examine it in retrospect, and wonder what I formed in my being by the choices I made, the things I said, and the reactions I permitted to run their course. Sometimes it goes well…sometimes it doesn’t. But they all count. So I want to be aware, let the scales of mundane fog fall from my eyes, so I can see what these things are that shape my being. Searching out the unseen, we find words that make a map from spiritual formation writer, Robert Mulholland. Mulholland calls these soul shaping things “trust structures”. I think we most often become aware of them in two ways (1) when we pay attention to our “feelings are road signs” . We notice the uncomfortable feelings of stress or shame or anger or harsh self-talk, They point us to the unseen scaffolding of beliefs that needs to be acknowledged and examined.