About a year ago I met Rachael Maddox at her blog, rach.mad.love. I was immediately struck by the brightness of her light – her passion for loving well, her deep wish to do good in the world, her intentionality about nurturing community, her integrity in naming and acknowledging her darkness and her light. She felt and still feels like all the best passion you can imagine, poured into one.

Today she talks with us about the connections she’s making between love and trust. I wrote yesterday about our theme being love this month, and my intention of exploring some of the fears that sometimes grow in love’s shadow. Rachael’s words today speak well to the fear that love and trust are all-or-nothing things that you either have, don’t have, or, given the right amount of strain, can lose for good. They speak, too, to the suspicion that the cost of love, and the cost of growing trust, are just too great.

Thank you, Rachael, for sharing so heartfully here!

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