Often considered one of the soft qualities of personality and character, trust does not immediately associate itself with sturdiness. The iconic self-made man of the American psyche trusts no one but himself. By definition self-reliant, he does not attach his fortune to the reliability of anyone else.
Not so the life of YHWH’s people. Here a different logic holds sway. The very reliability of YHWH establishes a baseline of sturdiness for those who choose to entrust their lot to his character:
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the LORD surrounds his people,
from this time on and forevermore. (Psalm 125:1-2 NRSV)
Geographical strongholds stand in as metaphor for YHWH’s existential bedrock. Those who anchor themselves to this most sturdy Protector will themselves be unshakable. A soft quality becomes, in paradox, the hardest.
Canter Bridge 
David, I am wanting today to connect love without reason with unmovable trust. The emotional cost of love without reason can only be sustained by trust that is beyond our grasp and therefore must be received in faith. For this we need a community that will walk alongside us without adding to our burden by trying to protect us from it. Roselyn
Dear Roselyn,
I think you are on to something. If (divine) love occurs without the limitations of the quid pro quo logic that undergirds much interpersonal relationship, then the proper human response to it is not only to develop the capacity to love with an analogous ‘unreason’ but also to trust in the Divine Lover in a way that outreaches any calculation of gain. For such a response we need a sustaining community.
Is this close to what you’re saying?
I believe such community exists but is rare. We make more progress by becoming the kinds of persons that sustain such community than by questing for the place where it might exist.
I was reading last evening on the Psalms of Ascent. They offer a glimpse of a worshipping community in pilgrimage to Zion with prayers for Zions’ restoration worked into their songs.
Dear David, Thank you for your generous response to my thoughts which are really more questions than conclusions. I wonder if in the rare instances when we are called not only to unreasoned love but to that love which by its action rebounds with crushing pain we need to trust the One for Whom all of this is measured for a purpose beyond the reach of our understanding. We need the community to hold us to hope that does not fade. It is helpful to let the community surprise us with its visitation as is the case with this dialogue. With deep gratitude, Roselyn