Trust enables hope

I found out today that a colleague's husband has bladder cancer. I learned a little about immunotherapy treatments.

I heard it would be good if the source of Jeff's were bladder cancer. Was warned that doing more research can be very overwhelming. There appears to be a fine line between enough info to make you feel you're doing the best you can for decisions and so much information that you question so much, almost to the point of decision paralysis.

My head spins from all the things there are out there about cancer and that there are so many different cancers and what we don't yet know. HUgeMONGOUS!

Speaking to this sense of being overwhelmed, I asked one of my other colleagues, how do we know when we're trusting God? What does it look like? I imagine it feels better than I feel most of the time now. I thought I understood, but apparently not with something like this i.e., I don't really trust Him.

This disturbs me greatly as I counsel people to do this all the time, but the more I try in this situation, the more confused I am. I do know that trusting God doesn't mean it comes out the way you'd like. I know that it's not true that if I really trusted in God He'd make it all go away, that my level of trust affects the outcome.

She said we take each day as it comes, we move through it and do the best we can to focus on the events and work of that day. And soon we find that one day leads to the end of a week and a week and so on. The rest is up to Him.

So my trusting affects my ability to get through the day, to focus and do the work of that day.

In short, trust enables hope.

Benedict XVI says "The one who has hope, lives differently."