Where's the Trust?

I can tell that since joining twitter.com my style is being influence by the question “what are you doing?” What I am doing right now with what’s left of my lunch hour is wondering if there is any issue more central to the human condition than trust. The liturgical equivalent of “trust” may be “faith”, but I find enough distinctions between the two to find them not synonymous. Even without an active consciousness, the fetus finds security—a form of trust—in the womb that is either continued or abruptly disrupted at the time of birth. The research that has shown a critical need for bonding between mother and child in the first few moments after birth should be shedding light upon those circumstances which deny the development of that trust. For many humans, it is more than just imagination to enter this life unwanted, a condition which irreparably disintegrates any sense of trust. Without trust, interpersonal, familial and communal relationships cannot genuinely exist, a truth to which we ought to be paying more attention.