The Medicine of Trust

Sacred Song 37:3–5

“Put all your trust in Grandfather. Live in harmony with the land, and you will be well-fed and cared for. Make Grandfather your greatest desire, and he will give you what your heart longs for. Trust Grandfather to show you the road to walk, and you can be sure he will walk it with you” – Psalm 37:3-5, FNV

So much is happening around us, and it can feel quite challenging. Life’s troubles often bring the question, “Where is God in all of this?” Maybe your own heart has felt the strain of that question. Central to this tension is a medicine that speaks to one’s spirit: trust. Trust in our Creator helps us see hope when our own eyes cannot. Trust in God is the Lord’s hopeful reminder that love never stops making a way, so we can look forward to brighter days.

Think about trust in God and how it meets us wherever we are on this road of life. Trust begins its work before everything is resolved. It enters our anxious places and brings calm. It meets us in our confusion and walks us through cloudiness. Ultimately, trust in God draws us out of trying to figure it all out on our own and into God’s rhythm, where our hearts learn to rest and trust the process.

When trust in God is cultivated, we start to notice it in our everyday lives. Trust becomes visible when hope shows up in the ordinary. Trust is felt when we breathe a little easier after we have prayed, when our shoulders loosen as we release what we cannot control, and when our spirit feels lighter as we remember Creator is always with us. Trust lives in these instances, reminding us we are sustained by a love greater than our concerns.

Medicine speaks to the whole of life, and trust works this way too. It gathers every part of who we are and reminds us that God brings what our hearts long for where we need it most. With that promise, we stand firm in God’s trust. May trust be your medicine as you walk with God, who fulfills holy desires.

Medicine for the Day

I place my trust in my Creator; my delight will continue to be in the Lord.