NPR did a story this morning on Williams Syndrome. It is a genetic disorder that among other things causes a person to be completely trusting, even affectionate towards everyone. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we could all not only trust each other, but feel genuine affection for each other? If only we could even start from that place instead of starting from a place of fear where we feel all trust must be earned and where the natural tendency is instead distrust. Yet we live in this world, where people like the child talked about in this story get taken advantage of for being the way we all wish at least to some extent we could be. Perhaps what we need however is to understand our world and seek to rise above it, to live our lives so as to be worthy of that trust and affection that that little girl can’t help but give. She was made to live in a perfect world and we all should at least want to give it to her and to each other. We need trust.