Someone to Be Safe With…

There are many exciting people, many talented and able and entertaining people, and many charming and engaging people, who add interest and usefulness and color to any occasion. But beyond all this, among the greatest blessing of life is to feel safe with someone.

In many ways we are dependent upon other people. We don’t have the knowledge of skill of ability to do all things for ourselves. And since this is so, it is essential to have someone to trust—someone to be safe with. But there is no real safety of peace of assurance with anyone without integrity, without high qualities of character,

It is an obligation to see that our children are safe. And fortunate is the child who can come with his hurts and his troubles to someone he can trust, and be enfolded in loving arms, with the assurance of being safe with someone. And not only is it so with children, but with others also.

We likely wouldn’t let an unknown, unproved messenger carry large amounts of money from bank to bank. But do we assure ourselves how safe our loved ones are? Would we entrust a daughter, for example, to unknown and unproved companions. Is there anything more priceless than virtue? Would we leave priceless and irreplaceable things to chance? This is plain speaking—but not too plain for the safeguarding of infinitely important and irreplaceable things.

Among the greatest blessings in life is to be safe with someone—someone who wouldn’t violate a trust, who wouldn’t take advantage of innocence of ignorance; someone who isn’t planning in his heart to compromise principles, or to deprive another person of virtue, honor, of any priceless of irreplaceable possession. We may have all else in life, but if we can’t count on character, on integrity, if we haven’t the sense of being safe, we have little that matters very much. It is wonderful to have someone we can turn to, someone we can trust.