Gratitude Practice 2020 Day 160: Divine Design

"The Lord's hand is guiding you. By "Divine Design" He is in the small details of your life as well as the major milestones. As it says in Proverbs, "Trust in the Lord with all try heart,...and He shall direct thy paths." -Ronald A. Rasband

Nothing is teaching trust more than the always surprising and never ending events of 2020.

Trust your gut that you are making the right choices for your family day in and day out.

Trust your neighbors, your co-workers and complete strangers and hope they are demonstrating caution, restraint and incorporating the suggested health guidelines.

Trust the Clorox and the bleaching and the new six-feet force fields.

Trust the news sources to be way more clear than clever.

Trust our elected leaders and those with decision making power to be wise and thoughtful and considerate to ALL in our community and they are wading through incredibly murky waters making unthinkable decisions with lasting impact....no pressure, right?

Trust in the scientists and medical minds whose education and training are critical for us to move forward.

Trust that WE...and I'm talking about all of us... really can do this...and that WE...the grown-ups...engage with as much maturity and critical awareness as we can muster.

Trust that throughout this process we show an extra helping of respect and kindness to ourselves and to others because we could all use just a semi truck size increase.

Trust that we are learning and un-learning to our absolute max so we can be and behave better in the future.

Trust is hard for me on a good day. Trust is often tricky...okay, it can be down right difficult especially when our reserves are running thin (insert enormous weighty exhausted sigh here). By intention, I really try to see the world through a frame that people are naturally good, people are hard to hate close up and everyone is doing the best they can...really really really trusting and drawing direction from these guiding principles...every damned day...

Today, grateful to be reminded of the divinity I have found inside the big and small details of this absolutely indescribable year...and I'm systematically rubbing my forehead as I type this realizing it's only June. Seems like I'm learning a metric ton right now about myself, my faith practice, my family, my community, and our nation. Grateful for this opportunity to learn about trust....and really hoping all of this big learning takes root.