Religion/Faith...

Regardless of who you believe in, I think the basic foundation of religion is surrender. Sure there's also faith and trust but it's mostly surrender. When we surrender, we make ourselves vulnerable long enough to trust something else to take our problems, stresses, fears, etc., just long enough to give us time to muster up the strength to deal with them when they are handed back to us.

As for faith and trust, imagine the fears, stresses, and thoughts you have on a daily basis that you feel like no one else could even begin to understand if you expressed it to them. We all would like to have someone we can off load our thoughts to, who can support us regardless. Who can motivate us, encourage us and not judge us.

Be it in the workplace, in the family, on a tour of an unknown terrain, we all want confident leaders whom we can trust blindly.

Religion is faith and trust with rules and guidelines.

My own thoughts, make your own.