Trust

Trust & Honesty go hand-in-hand don't they?
You can only really feel you can trust someone if you believe they are being honest with you.
If they love you, and desire only your ultimate good, then how much more should we trust the person who is honest?

Dis-honesty is a sin. As God is incapable of sinning, he would never, could never, be dishonest with us.


God loves us, more than we can comprehend. He IS love, and can be nothing but pure true love, and He desires only and always for our ultimate good. He only does what is good for us. As was so perfectly expressed by Jesus in yesterday's Gospel reading;

Which one of you would hand his son a stone
when he asked for a loaf of bread,
or a snake when he asked for a fish?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give good things
to those who ask him.
(Mt 7)

Regardless of our perception of what is happening to us, we have to trust God, over and above everything else. No matter how things look, we have to keep our eyes focused ahead on Christ on the cross, the ultimate sign of God's love for us.

The following story I tell, not to judge or condemn those involved, but rather as a be example which, though it tears at my heart, has taught me a lot, and may be of value to others.
In addition, I invite you to pray for the girl as she approaches death.

I know someone in her early 30s who, last year, got a diagnosis of skin cancer. It has spread, and is now all over her body. Incurable. She is married, and Catholic.

Eight years ago she had an abortion.

Some might look at the situation now and say " Thank goodness she had that abortion! Imagine now, there would be a child, barely 10 years old, who soon wouldn't have a mother!"

Others might say, "Perhaps that gift God gave her was sent to be her life-line. Perhaps, because of that child, her lifestyle in the last 10 years would've been different, and so she now wouldn't have the skin cancer..."

I guess what I am trying to illustrate is the importance of trusting God with what He sends us, because He DOES love us and DOES desire only our good.

The way we percieve the things that happen to us, often is not the way He does!
We have to trust Him, and recieve with joy what He has chosen to give us.
Because it may be through that, that we have life.

May You Holy Will, Oh Lord, Be Done in All Things.