Time to Trust
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Jamie Walters
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By Jamie Walters
Published on 07/23/2008
The great poet, Maya Angelou, says, "It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
Frederick Buechner, the award-winning and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated writer and Presbyterian Minister, told of a very difficult time in his life when he was faced with his daughter's illness.
He pulled over to the side of a road and sat to pray about it, to invite fresh insight into what seemed a life-threatening and insurmountable problem. Just at that moment, a car went by with a license plate that read TRUST.
When I read this story, I laughed in recognition. A year or two ago, I was walking the streets of my San Francisco neighborhood, contemplating a difficult situation, and stopped at an intersection just as the light turned. At that moment, I looked up, and a converted school bus, painted bright green, drove by -- the word TRUST painted in large, white letters across the front.
Many people would brush aside such stories in cynism, yet such synchronicities do happen all the time, and those who notice see them. In some cultures and wisdom traditions, everything speaks its guidance and wisdom to you, because everything is connected by an unseen intelligence, Life, that moves in, through, and as all. We inquire out into the vastness, and all around us speaks a reply.
In difficult times, our trust is put to the test, because fear and anxiety shrink our capacity for seeing and listening to those subtle signs and quiet guidance. In these times, a message might scream, or we might have to cultivate stillness and observation in order to receive the messages and guidance that we seek.
Trust, like faith, is far from a passive stance; it's very active, in that it requires diligence, cultivation, practice, discernment, and response. It requires us to choose, moment by moment, day by day, whether we give ourselves over to fear and anxiety, or to trust and greater purpose. Rather than clunking our way through life as an obstacle course, getting bruised all along the way, trust allows us to dance, connect, and perhaps even experiencing grace and synchronicity.
In choosing to open to and cultivate trust, we ask: What if something else is possible? What if there really IS a way? What if I actually can live my dream? What if others really are my allies? What if there really is a graceful way through? What if I really can trust?
"When I'm trusting and being myself ...e verything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." ~ Shakti Gawain
Trust, like faith, is far from a passive stance; it's very active, in that it requires diligence, cultivation, practice, discernment, and response. It requires us to choose, moment by moment, day by day, whether we give ourselves over to fear and anxiety, or to trust and greater purpose. Rather than clunking our way through life as an obstacle course, getting bruised all along the way, trust allows us to dance, connect, and perhaps even experiencing grace and synchronicity.
Time to Trust
The great poet, Maya Angelou, says, "It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
Frederick Buechner, the award-winning and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated writer and Presbyterian Minister, told of a very difficult time in his life when he was faced with his daughter's illness.
He pulled over to the side of a road and sat to pray about it, to invite fresh insight into what seemed a life-threatening and insurmountable problem. Just at that moment, a car went by with a license plate that read TRUST.
When I read this story, I laughed in recognition. A year or two ago, I was walking the streets of my San Francisco neighborhood, contemplating a difficult situation, and stopped at an intersection just as the light turned. At that moment, I looked up, and a converted school bus, painted bright green, drove by -- the word TRUST painted in large, white letters across the front.
Many people would brush aside such stories in cynism, yet such synchronicities do happen all the time, and those who notice see them. In some cultures and wisdom traditions, everything speaks its guidance and wisdom to you, because everything is connected by an unseen intelligence, Life, that moves in, through, and as all. We inquire out into the vastness, and all around us speaks a reply.
In difficult times, our trust is put to the test, because fear and anxiety shrink our capacity for seeing and listening to those subtle signs and quiet guidance. In these times, a message might scream, or we might have to cultivate stillness and observation in order to receive the messages and guidance that we seek.
Trust, like faith, is far from a passive stance; it's very active, in that it requires diligence, cultivation, practice, discernment, and response. It requires us to choose, moment by moment, day by day, whether we give ourselves over to fear and anxiety, or to trust and greater purpose. Rather than clunking our way through life as an obstacle course, getting bruised all along the way, trust allows us to dance, connect, and perhaps even experiencing grace and synchronicity.
In choosing to open to and cultivate trust, we ask: What if something else is possible? What if there really IS a way? What if I actually can live my dream? What if others really are my allies? What if there really is a graceful way through? What if I really can trust?
"When I'm trusting and being myself ...e verything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." ~ Shakti Gawain