Two Good Thoughts on Trust

Today I read two great thoughts on the subject of trust.

Chris Monroe, the desert pastor, ties together the idea of rest and trust.

Maybe our rest is not deep enough, not effective enough, because we're not trusting enough. Trusting who? Trusting God. Maybe if we were to trust God more deeply, we would find ourselves resting more deeply. Maybe then, what's behind our rest-deficiency would be seen as a trust-deficiency.

To fully trust, we must relinquish the control, the power, turning it over to God. And when we do, it's then that we can truly rest.

Meanwhile, Joy Morris muses on hope, and links faith to giving up control and becoming vulnerable.

Today I've been thinking about hope and faith. Hope and faith create vulnerability in the person who chooses to hope and believe. I usually think of the two acts as empowering, but there is this shadow side. It's making a choice to stay soft and malleable. It's a choice not to have control or even know. Hope and faith admit one's need for help. I need God and people.

The parallels between the two struck me, as well as the timing — both on the same day. Interesting.