An Opportunity For Trust

“If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.” -Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Suffering is whenever you’re not in control.” -Richard Rohr

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” -Seneca

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” -Proverbs 3:5

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too. -poem, “If” by Rudyard Kipling

“I’ve known a great many troubles, most of which never happened.” -Mark Twain

Uncertainty and suffering go hand in hand.

For it’s not so much the actual bad news that sucks as much as it is the anticipation of said news. The not-knowing. That’s where we often spin out.

One thought/mantra to remind yourself in periods of uncertainty is this:

The greater the uncertainty, the greater the opportunity to TRUST.

Trust in yourself and your ability to deal with whatever comes your way. (Look at past examples as confidence boosters.)

Trust in your friends and family to help you through. (Look at past examples as confidence boosters.)

Trust in a divine force that is so much bigger, cosmically intelligent and full of love than you could ever imagine. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.

Trust that whatever it is, this too shall pass.

Lastly, trust that almost always, most of the negative things you imagine, won’t happen.

The greater the uncertainty, the greater the opportunity to TRUST.

(If you knew how it was all going to turn it out, then there wouldn’t be any need to trust, right?…Now, where’s the fun in that?)