Trust Him

I have been learning a thing or two about trust these days. Once complete surrender has taken place, you automatically come to this place of trust that feels unlike anything else.
When you’re in the waiting---listening for His voice, looking everywhere for a glimpse of His face, seeking His touch on your life—it is very challenging to trust.

What I’ve learned the most this week is that in the midst of our waiting---He is there. But most of the time we don’t hear Him-- because we are too caught up in what we think the plan for our life should be.
We think we have it all taken care of, and He needs to give us some signal so that we’ll know He’ s on the same page as us!!!
‘Lean not to your own understanding”…..
We have been so accustomed to doing things in our own strength, that He’s just supposed to climb on board our thought life.
What we’re missing is that we must forget about our own thoughts and ideas and climb on board His grace boat--There we ride the waves of his love and peace, and trust naturally comes while we’re on the journey.
Once we get to the place of pure trust—wherever the boat docks—we must obey. Even if it is a place that we are unfamiliar with, or the destination doesn’t really fit the description we had in mind!

Receive His grace.
His promises are true.
Take His journey.

Surrender.
Trust.
Obey.

He really is who He says He is.


Maria and her family reside in NE Ohio. She and her husband are the parents of two. Their daughter is a person with hemipelegic cerebral palsy.Because of her experiences, Maria provides parent-to-parent support for families involved in her local early intervention program.

Her gift for writing has come directly from the Lord since her daughter’s diagnosis. She writes a monthly column entitled, “Special Parents, Special Kids” for the Mahoning Valley Parent magazine in Ohio; and has expanded into Parent magazines in parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She is also a contributing author at www.mommiesmagazine.com.

Maria's first published work is in Jan Ross and Jeanice McDade's Women of Passion's anthology, "Ordinary Women Serving an Extraordinary God". Both Kim and Maria have been selected to have their work tentatively included in Lori Wagner,s upcoming book, Quilting Patches of Life, Volume 2.

Maria is very passionate about getting the word out to special parents that they are not alone in their journey of raising their special child; and that they were chosen by God to parent their children. Maria welcomes comments and communication as well as invitations for her to speak to your group.

Get a Life---verse!

Early in my Christian walk, someone asked me if I had a life verse. I barely had a grasp on what version of the Bible to read let alone a verse. I wanted something that no matter what came my way, I could look at that verse and go yea, that's right. God is in control and this is what I need to do here.

My faith became personal in 1992 and for many of those years, the same verse has served me well. What is it?

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6.

What does this verse mean to me? When I have a choice to make, when something is on my mind, I give it up. I know on my own intelligence and actions, I'll goof it up. Big. When I trust Him, it's the way to go every time. I need to do this in all areas of my life, not just the easy parts of life. I have to acknowledge Him in all ways. The visual I have is what if you bought a house and you were handed the deed but learned you only got certain rooms, not all of them? It's the same way with this verse. When you give your trust over to Him, He's going to show you the way.

His way. His perfect way. In His time. That's hard for most of us to accept. I can say when I have truly applied this verse to my life, He has never let me down. This verse exemplifies what I want in a relationship with God, and what I know I have to give, or in my case, give up. My way. My actions and reactions. My timing. Can you relate?

Do you have a verse that really means a lot to you? We'd love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment.

By the way, did you know that there are enough Proverbs that you could read one each day and tackle the book of Proverbs in a month, each month? There is so much wisdom in these short writings, I encourage you to read them.

Julie is a surrendered writer with her own blog, http://thesurrenderedscribe.blogspot.com/. A graduate of the Christian Writers Guild, she blogs for the Christian Writers Forum Sundays as the mommy blogger and is the Forum's book club facilitator. She is active with FaithWriters and has several writings ready to publish in different books and anthologies in 2008-09. To contact Julie, Kim or Maria, please contact us at jarduini@faithwriters.net.