Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk? – 17
It’s time to look at trusting the important person in your life. Answers to the following questions are critical. Answer them very carefully. Take time and observe all you can about this person you want to enter the inner circles of your life and welfare. Think on these things:
Can you trust this person with your emotional health?
Can you trust this person with your spiritual health?
Can you trust this person with your physical health?
Can this person be trusted with your finances?
Can this person be trusted with your children?
Has this person ever cheated on you?
Has this person ever cheated on anyone before you?
From the book:
“Trust comes from knowing someone long enough and well enough that you are familiar with their actions and reactions. It stems from seeing them in their integrity and responsibility. Someone gains my trust when they prove themselves worthy of it over time. I shy away from someone I don’t know well, especially if they tell me ‘just to trust them.’ To me, that seems insincere and manipulative. Perhaps that comes from my experience in unhealthy and difficult relationships that jade my thinking. I opt for erring on the side of caution regarding trust.” (Taylor, Joy S., Before You Kiss the Frog…Can We Talk?, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, 2025, Indiana, p.39.)
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Joy S. Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering for Care Net.