Happiness thru Faith: Transforming Joy (Paths to Wisdom Book 5)

Confident love

On the one hand, we have the person who gives his trust in the collateral of the sale; whether it is an "ox, ass, sheep, clothing or any lost thing."; on the other hand, we have the person who offended the person who extended his trust to the purchaser r lender of such items lost. What does it mean to trust in God?
This is our initial question in this paper? Trust as defined by St. Thomas Aquinas, is "confident assurance in him whose help has been promised. We've all experienced trust before in our lives. In fact, we live it every day and grow in trust. On the other hand, what are the things that keep our trust from developing? There may be various reasons for this also. We have ill feelings or disagreements and the like. As time goes on, and we do not take care of these negative feelings and anxieties they create, and then our trust can being to erode, and our relationships begin to fade away.
On the other hand how do we show our trust toward others? If true tis a "confident assurance in those who have promised to help us, and then how do we actually show we trust those persons whom we intimately confide our life and our future? Also, are there various levels of trust? IF there are levels of trust in our relationship, then what are the signs we give to ourselves or others give to us that we can trust them more with our lives. The trust of a soldier under the hands of his general is different from the trust of a child in his parents. The trust of a student is different from the trust of a husband with his wife or a wife with her husband.
Yes they all have their common thread running thru them in that the one person has this "confident assurance" not in himself, but in "him (or her) in whose help has been promised."
Faith Aesthetics
The aesthetics of aesthetics is a topic which was on the minds of the earliest Christians who sought to reconcile the differences and similarities between the Old Testament truths of Divine Revelation and the New Testament truth given thru Jesus Christ. All aesthetics try to discover the meaning of what makes us appreciate the beauty underneath natural realities. Physical facts are a reflection of a divine plan of creation and under this aspect of beauty it is appropriate to ask ourselves what are essential differences and the aesthetic qualities that give pleasure to our soul when we assent to the truth as revealed by God; furthermore, faith aesthetics also seeks to comprehend the differences between our natural assent to truth created by man and the supernatural reality that is revealed the use of natural words of faith. God chooses to speak to us and reveal to us supernatural truths thru the use of natural language. Jesus Christ used the familiar realities of the physical world to communicate to us the supernatural world of God and his plan for his adopted Children. Faith, cognition and beauty are but a few of aspects of religious or faith aesthetics. This short book seeks to understand five aspects of faith aesthetics.
Chapter one looks at the importance and relationship that rhythm makes the contribution of assent to faith. Chapter two looks more closely at the things that separate natural rhythm and words forth the supernatural reality that empowers faith. Chapter three separates natural faith from a supernatural faith and establishes a foundation for supernatural faith aesthetics. Chapter four notes some differences between rhythm and assent. Lastly, chapter five seek to understand the importance of proper proportion and beauty as related to supernatural faith. Jesus hinted at this teaching of faith aesthetics in his parable of Divine Providence to his disciples when he told them this parable.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing in