Trust… As a value, it is difficult to express its significance.

Much of life at Wycombe Abbey, indeed the world, rests upon the stability of how we regard one another, what we do, what we say and how we say it. It’s not just the big-ticket items like trust in a marriage, or in business contracts (indeed, some contracts are overly inflated because of a lack of trust!), but in little everyday things. Stuff we don’t often think about. If I buy something, will I be charged the correct and fair amount? If I ask a friend a question, will they be truthful? If I sit on this chair, will it collapse on me? They are not common thoughts, in part because it would be mentally exhausting to go through life pondering everything, and partly because we all, to some degree, have implicit trust in so many things. Trust, I would suggest, is a fundamental attribute to healthy minds and society, not just individual relationships.

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