Reflections | TRUST

Msgr. Don reevaluates the virtue of Hope and how unstable this life can seem without it.

Trust. Do you trust me? Do you trust in God? Do you trust that what is unfolding in your life is for you? Those are questions that are really important, and it's important to understand how this virtue of trust works, because it is a virtue, because it's connected to another virtue that I think you'll know is pretty important. We have three virtues that we focus on in Christianity and most religions which are faith, hope, and charity. Trust is connected to which one do you think? It's to hope. 

You have to understand hope, because I always thought that hope was wishing, you know, if I hope the day goes well for you, I hope the trip is successful, I hope the work that you want to accomplish will be accomplished. It's like, I'd like it to happen. I'm not sure it will, but I certainly wish it would. That's the way most of us think about hope. But hope is not that. It is an absolute conviction that what is promised will take place. It will take place well. What do you base that on? Trust. Trust in the one who speaks it. Trust in the history you had with that person or or that situation. But trust seems to me to be the kind of thing that is a release from the anxiety that we have of whether something is going to work or not. But before you can get to that comfortable level of everything is as it should be, everything will work out. I trust in that because I've been told that's true. By what? By who? That inner voice. That consciousness, that we have about something that we absolutely believe in, not because we're told maybe we were told first about it, but we've made a decision that that's what it is. 

I trust in that voice inside of me that tells me that what has been promised will take place without it I don't know. It's so easy to get thrown back and forth in terms of how my life is going, how the world is going. That's a big one. I mean, do you trust that everything is unfolding in the world today? All the conflicts, all the growth and change and all the difficulties and successes? You believe it's all working together for something good. If you don't have that, it depends on the last story you listen to on the news or the last article you read in the paper, you wonder, oh, my God, what's going to happen? But there's something like a steady, steady rock inside of you and I. I want to call it trust. If you're looking for it, if you want to find it, and you don't have it yet, ask the God that dwells inside of you to reveal to you the most basic thing about him. He never, ever takes his eyes and his heart and his mind away from you in terms of you being able to find the goals that he set for you.

If you don't believe you have that power greater than every other power, if you don’t trust in that kind of power, then the peace that is promised, this wonderful thing, this inner resonance of well-being that is contagious, won't be there. And the world longs for it. It longs for people that trust, hope, believe that it all as well and all will be well.

Have a good day.

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