MOVING FORWARD: USING TRUST AS YOUR LIFE PRESERVER
MOVING FORWARD: USING TRUST AS YOUR LIFE PRESERVER
by Sunny Schlenger
Several years ago, a series of unexpected events tossed me out of Life Cruise mode, and into the cold rapids of Uncharted Reality. A good friend counseled me to grab onto the only thing I could--
my faith that things would work out the way they were supposed to--and just hang on. In other words, use trust as my life preserver.
I’ve never forgotten this advice, and fortunately haven’t had to use it too often. But every time I do, I’m both amazed at and comforted by its power to get me through whatever requires navigation.
Crises test our beliefs, and I’m pretty sure that they occur when they do as a way of showing us what we’re made of; they make us walk our talk and demonstrate how far we’ve come since the last time our foundation was shaken. We’d much rather do without them, of course, but handled correctly, they can lift us to the next level of our growth.
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