Something Beautiful

[noun]

1. Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
2. One in which confidence is placed

It’s a word we use so often, yet often forget the actual meaning of it.
We say, “Trust me!” “Trust the process.” “Trust your gut.” “Trust your heart.”

But the most important one of them all, “Trust the Lord.”

It’s been a while since I’ve written. A lot has happened and changed in my life. Within the last year (ish), I’ve gotten engaged, married, moved, had surgery, and adjusted to life as a newlywed and wife. My career took a shift as I got a promotion at work, we’ve celebrated multiple birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones in our own little family and our extended family.

2024 was a good year for us, a fun year!

But with each celebration, milestone, fun and hard thing we encountered, one thing my husband kept reminding me was to trust the Lord.

My word for 2024 was Press In. Pressing in, in 2024, was a challenge for me though. My own flesh wanted to go back to the stubbornness of “I’ll do it myself” instead of pressing in to the Lord and allowing Him to work in my heart and life.

My husband reminded me on so many occasions, “give it to the Lord.” I tried, over and over and over again. Each time I tried to take it back, “give it to the Lord.”

Our goal for our wedding ceremony was to honor and bring glory to our Savior. That happened. How? Because we made critical decisions to Press In to how He wanted us to orchestrate it.

This year, my word is Trust. As I started praying about it, within about 2 minutes, the word Trust was put on my heart and would not leave.

I shared it with my husband one night and I also shared how it scares me. Why? Because as I shared above, Trust means “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone…” and “One in which confidence is placed.”

It means I have to Trust Him, with everything. It’s not in my own strength, but in His.
I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time letting go of things and giving up control in my life. As I’ve said before, it’s something I’m constantly working on and is something the Lord is using to shape me more and more each day.

It also means something hard is coming and I’m going to have to put into practice my word from 2024 & 2025. I’m going to have to Press In AND Trust the Lord more than ever with whatever He has coming my way.

Do I know what’s coming?
No.

Do I trust that my creator does?
YES.

No matter what, I will Trust.