To me it means to be in the moment instead of past or future scenary, to say YES to life and go with the flow, heart and mind open. To let go of control and let life and His Love guide.
To me it means trust in God. My ex husband, the father of my children passed away last night in his sleep. It was God’s will and I trust it was the right one given his health condition. Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers during a difficult time 💕
Your ex-husband
no longer suffers,
dear Robin Ann . . .
may grief
bring healing to you and your family.
I hold you all
in my heart
with love . . .
sparrow ♥
I’m not sure what to say about this. Along with finding joy and peace, people endure emotional and physical pain in life.
I do know that I have hope, and by this I mean that there are always possibilities and that I can always
make choices. But are there really always possibilities from which I can choose?
One possibility that I always have, is that I can change the way that I look at life.
And often, that makes all the difference.
This is a hard one for me. It seems like I have never expected things to work out. Always planning for the worst. Expecting disaster around the corner.
It has been pointed out to me, that all the evidence suggests the opposite.
Things have generally worked out amazingly.
I have been so lucky. I am
Slowly learning to let go. To surrender to the moment. To be more trusting.
It’s not easy for me.
I pass a sign in someone’s front yard a couple of times a week. It’s a quote from the bible. It says
“For we walk by faith, not by sight”.
And I usually think to myself, yeah, but it helps to look where you’re going. 😁
It occurs to me that expecting something bad to happen is a form of attachment just as expecting something good would be. Both are taking an unknown future state and reacting to it even though it hasn’t occurred and may not occur. Trusting in the moment–tough, yes, and yet takes less mental energy than anticipating and fretting, then having the actual thing happen and responding to that as well. Like living something twice.
This kind of thinking is very familiar to me. My husband says that I always choose to believe things will not work out. There is some truth in that. I think I do that to protect myself from being disappointed, and to be ready to choose an appropriate action in case things don’t work out in the way that I would like. But, like you, Charlie, little by little, I am learning to let go.
To me, trusting life means trusting in God, His grace, and His blessings in what I understand and in things I haven’t understood yet. All are God’s gifts to me.
I’ve missed this community as I’ve been traveling to family events. This question, about trusting life, seems very relevant to the next trip I need to take at the end of this month to bury my brother’s ashes. I need to remind myself that it was my brother’s choice not to pursue additional treatment for his chronic illness. I need to trust that others walk their own path just as I do mine.
. . . an important thing to learn,
dear Enndee.
You cannot take responsibility
for the choices that others have made.
What happened with your brother
was a tragic decision,
made by him
and not you.
Indeed,
we each walk our own path . . .
we can’t walk theirs
and they can’t walk ours . . .
peace be with you. ♥
“What we have in our heads takes a while to reach our hearts.” I’m going to try to remember this one, Enndee. Thank you for sharing, and welcome back to this community.
I’ve been remiss being here daily as I’m still dog watching for a few more days. To Trust Life means I do have faith in the part of the prayer, “Give us this day our Daily Bread…”; on days I’ve not brought a lunch to work, something shows up at an event or there’s a meal donated with plenty. I know from 68 years of Life-ing, my needs ARE met, maybe not all my wants. An inner 12 year old girl child who grew up with brothers, still longs for a pony or a unicorn (shhh, don’t tell her the truth, let her wish!). Trusting Life leads me to knowing even in the midst of having doubts that “all shall be well.” Namaste good friends🫶🏽☮️🦄
I can have full trust in the natural world to do what it’s going to do–not that this will always be good for human survival, but that I can count on interlocking systems to adapt and grow.
Trust in human relationships feels more possible if I practice nonattachment to specific outcomes and move forward nonetheless, accepting what comes and experiencing my own adaptation and growth. I have close friends I can trust and rely on, my sweetheart and my daughters and stepchildren. I generally trust my own instincts and judgment, although I always seek to check myself for unrecognized biases or assumptions. If I’m being authentic and living my values and am willing to learn out loud when I make a mistake and adjust to incorporate that learning, then I can be trustworthy, worthy of trust from others.
The Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer poem from May 18 is ultimately about trust.
“Over Time”
The way my grandmother tended
to her daylilies, that is the way
I want to attune to your words—
knowing how each utterance blooms
only briefly, but when cared for,
the plant itself is hardy, long lasting,
abundant, able to survive both
heat and chill, both loam and clay.
Come love, whisper to me.
I cherish every petal. And when
there is no bloom, I have learned
water and fertilize anyway, to honor
the place where the bloom will be.
What does it mean to me to trust life?
It means I’m trustworthy. When I realized that Life is trustworthy, I realized that I am trustworthy because I am Life. We all are life. Franciscan priest and author Richard Rohr often says, “We offer our prayer together in all the Holy Names of God.” He’s not preaching or teaching dogma. He’s honoring and claiming the wisdom of all paths that lead this Life to fruition and promise. This site is a perfect example of caring and sharing our one Life. Breathing in and breathing out this infinite spirit that our finite mind cannot define. This Breath of Life that is calling us all forth to honor and embrace hundreds of years of evolutionary experience and growth. It is doing its best to assure us that if we go with the flow, roll with the punches, we will be shown a way. When I read the story of creation from various religious disciplines I always come away forsaking victimhood. There is no “Why me?” There is only “May I learn from this situation and not turn it in to a problem. Life, for me, is trustworthy.
It must be very comforting,
at the very least,
dear Carol Ann,
to have this faith
I do too,
on one level,
but there are places
where it tries to abandon me . . .
‘keep on keepin’ on,
right?
Baby steps. ♥
No magical thinking. Hope is healthy; wishing is not. Allowing life to unfold. Not being a bystander, I put in the work. But I trust that a greater good will unfold. I have to lean into that.
To go with the flow. I have a belief that I gather the facts, make a decision and then deal with the outcome. If it turns out well, I rejoice, if the outcome is less than I thought, I find the lesson.
When I trust life, I open up to the sensation of being part of nature, a tiny piece of a massive and complex reality, and give myself over to whatever flow life has for me at this moment. I trust the greater intelligence of nature, and if I find myself in a place that’s poisonous, I trust myself to notice and shift directions.
To trust in life to me means trusting in a higher power. Trusting that the Universe is working in my favor. All is working out for me.
Surrender.
All is well. 🩷
I trust that the sun will arrive, or that it will rain or snow. I trust that the saguaro and the prickly pear will bloom. I trust that birds will tweet, and that coyotes will eat, breed and ultimately die. I trust that people will die.
But I can’t help but recall President Bush’s comment: “Trust but verify” when thinking about placing trust in people. And yes, I do have a problem with trusting people. I am a project in the making when it comes to trusting.
I too have trust issues – I have been betrayed by someone who I never thought would and did so your reflection resonates with me on a deeply personal level.
John, I have a hard time with trusting others too, so I know what you mean. It takes a lot to earn my trust, but once they do, it comes in high quality.
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Thank you all for your positive comments. It is heart warming.
To me it means to be in the moment instead of past or future scenary, to say YES to life and go with the flow, heart and mind open. To let go of control and let life and His Love guide.
To me it means trust in God. My ex husband, the father of my children passed away last night in his sleep. It was God’s will and I trust it was the right one given his health condition. Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers during a difficult time 💕
May love and peace be with you and your children also, dear Robin Ann. With a warm embrace, if I may.
Thank you Ose 💖
Thinking of you and sending you and your children future peace with memories that you want to carry with you.
Thank you Barb 💖
Sending love, Robin Ann, to you and your children.
Thank you Mary 💖
Your ex-husband
no longer suffers,
dear Robin Ann . . .
may grief
bring healing to you and your family.
I hold you all
in my heart
with love . . .
sparrow ♥
Thank you Sparrow 💖
❤️🩹🕯️
Thank you Yram 💖
Sending love and deep condolences, Robin Ann.
Thank you Drea 💖
My condolences and deepest sympathies to you and your children Robin Ann.
Thank you Michele 💖
My condolences to your family.
Thank you Sunnypatti 💖
I will be thinking of you and your children in the days ahead, Robin Ann. Taking some deep breaths as well. Trusting.
Thank you Enndee 💖
I’m not sure what to say about this. Along with finding joy and peace, people endure emotional and physical pain in life.
I do know that I have hope, and by this I mean that there are always possibilities and that I can always
make choices. But are there really always possibilities from which I can choose?
One possibility that I always have, is that I can change the way that I look at life.
And often, that makes all the difference.
This is a hard one for me. It seems like I have never expected things to work out. Always planning for the worst. Expecting disaster around the corner.
It has been pointed out to me, that all the evidence suggests the opposite.
Things have generally worked out amazingly.
I have been so lucky. I am
Slowly learning to let go. To surrender to the moment. To be more trusting.
It’s not easy for me.
I pass a sign in someone’s front yard a couple of times a week. It’s a quote from the bible. It says
“For we walk by faith, not by sight”.
And I usually think to myself, yeah, but it helps to look where you’re going. 😁
It occurs to me that expecting something bad to happen is a form of attachment just as expecting something good would be. Both are taking an unknown future state and reacting to it even though it hasn’t occurred and may not occur. Trusting in the moment–tough, yes, and yet takes less mental energy than anticipating and fretting, then having the actual thing happen and responding to that as well. Like living something twice.
💗
No kidding Charlie! Thanks for the chuckle.
This kind of thinking is very familiar to me. My husband says that I always choose to believe things will not work out. There is some truth in that. I think I do that to protect myself from being disappointed, and to be ready to choose an appropriate action in case things don’t work out in the way that I would like. But, like you, Charlie, little by little, I am learning to let go.
Sometimes,
dear Charlie,
our sight fails us. ♥
To me, trusting life means trusting in God, His grace, and His blessings in what I understand and in things I haven’t understood yet. All are God’s gifts to me.
My Ngoc, we easily align on trusting in god.
I’ve missed this community as I’ve been traveling to family events. This question, about trusting life, seems very relevant to the next trip I need to take at the end of this month to bury my brother’s ashes. I need to remind myself that it was my brother’s choice not to pursue additional treatment for his chronic illness. I need to trust that others walk their own path just as I do mine.
. . . an important thing to learn,
dear Enndee.
You cannot take responsibility
for the choices that others have made.
What happened with your brother
was a tragic decision,
made by him
and not you.
Indeed,
we each walk our own path . . .
we can’t walk theirs
and they can’t walk ours . . .
peace be with you. ♥
Thank you, dear Sparrow…. What we have in our heads takes a while to reach our hearts.
“What we have in our heads takes a while to reach our hearts.” I’m going to try to remember this one, Enndee. Thank you for sharing, and welcome back to this community.
I’ve been remiss being here daily as I’m still dog watching for a few more days. To Trust Life means I do have faith in the part of the prayer, “Give us this day our Daily Bread…”; on days I’ve not brought a lunch to work, something shows up at an event or there’s a meal donated with plenty. I know from 68 years of Life-ing, my needs ARE met, maybe not all my wants. An inner 12 year old girl child who grew up with brothers, still longs for a pony or a unicorn (shhh, don’t tell her the truth, let her wish!). Trusting Life leads me to knowing even in the midst of having doubts that “all shall be well.” Namaste good friends🫶🏽☮️🦄
I’m reminded of yesterday’s quote:
“The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
And also the line from the Desiderata:
“No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
— Max Ehrmann
https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html
I can have full trust in the natural world to do what it’s going to do–not that this will always be good for human survival, but that I can count on interlocking systems to adapt and grow.
Trust in human relationships feels more possible if I practice nonattachment to specific outcomes and move forward nonetheless, accepting what comes and experiencing my own adaptation and growth. I have close friends I can trust and rely on, my sweetheart and my daughters and stepchildren. I generally trust my own instincts and judgment, although I always seek to check myself for unrecognized biases or assumptions. If I’m being authentic and living my values and am willing to learn out loud when I make a mistake and adjust to incorporate that learning, then I can be trustworthy, worthy of trust from others.
The Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer poem from May 18 is ultimately about trust.
“Over Time”
The way my grandmother tended
to her daylilies, that is the way
I want to attune to your words—
knowing how each utterance blooms
only briefly, but when cared for,
the plant itself is hardy, long lasting,
abundant, able to survive both
heat and chill, both loam and clay.
Come love, whisper to me.
I cherish every petal. And when
there is no bloom, I have learned
water and fertilize anyway, to honor
the place where the bloom will be.
https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2026/05/18/over-time/
I too,
liked this poem,
dear Barb. ♥
What does it mean to me to trust life?
It means I’m trustworthy. When I realized that Life is trustworthy, I realized that I am trustworthy because I am Life. We all are life. Franciscan priest and author Richard Rohr often says, “We offer our prayer together in all the Holy Names of God.” He’s not preaching or teaching dogma. He’s honoring and claiming the wisdom of all paths that lead this Life to fruition and promise. This site is a perfect example of caring and sharing our one Life. Breathing in and breathing out this infinite spirit that our finite mind cannot define. This Breath of Life that is calling us all forth to honor and embrace hundreds of years of evolutionary experience and growth. It is doing its best to assure us that if we go with the flow, roll with the punches, we will be shown a way. When I read the story of creation from various religious disciplines I always come away forsaking victimhood. There is no “Why me?” There is only “May I learn from this situation and not turn it in to a problem. Life, for me, is trustworthy.
It must be very comforting,
at the very least,
dear Carol Ann,
to have this faith
I do too,
on one level,
but there are places
where it tries to abandon me . . .
‘keep on keepin’ on,
right?
Baby steps. ♥
Sparrow, I think we all have times when our faith is challenged. Two steps forward…one step back!
♥
No magical thinking. Hope is healthy; wishing is not. Allowing life to unfold. Not being a bystander, I put in the work. But I trust that a greater good will unfold. I have to lean into that.
I heard a long time ago and thought about; You can wish in one hand and sh_t in the other. I can guarantee which one will fill up first!
Yes,
dear Avril . . .
wishing is a non-starter. ♥
I’m with you on the hope vs wishing thing.
I have learned to catch myself when I’m “wishing” for something.
To go with the flow. I have a belief that I gather the facts, make a decision and then deal with the outcome. If it turns out well, I rejoice, if the outcome is less than I thought, I find the lesson.
love this
I love the way, Yram, that you make things that feel confusing to me, so clear
🙏🏻
YRAM…thank you..your words are so helpful
When I trust life, I open up to the sensation of being part of nature, a tiny piece of a massive and complex reality, and give myself over to whatever flow life has for me at this moment. I trust the greater intelligence of nature, and if I find myself in a place that’s poisonous, I trust myself to notice and shift directions.
Love this, Drea.
To trust in life to me means trusting in a higher power. Trusting that the Universe is working in my favor. All is working out for me.
Surrender.
All is well. 🩷
I trust that the sun will arrive, or that it will rain or snow. I trust that the saguaro and the prickly pear will bloom. I trust that birds will tweet, and that coyotes will eat, breed and ultimately die. I trust that people will die.
But I can’t help but recall President Bush’s comment: “Trust but verify” when thinking about placing trust in people. And yes, I do have a problem with trusting people. I am a project in the making when it comes to trusting.
I too have trust issues – I have been betrayed by someone who I never thought would and did so your reflection resonates with me on a deeply personal level.
John, I have a hard time with trusting others too, so I know what you mean. It takes a lot to earn my trust, but once they do, it comes in high quality.