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Trusting Joy: How my blog got it's name

Hi Girls,

Have you ever thought about trust? I'm sure you have, it's something everyone thinks about at some point in their life. We trust our parents are making the right choices, we trust our friends will keep our secrets, we trust our pastor is telling us truth, we trust the grocery store to make sure our food isn't spoiled.

We trust God.

Or, should I say, we say we trust God.

Yeah. There's the kicker isn't it? Do we actually trust God? Because, it's one thing to say you trust Him, but it's quite another to completely trust Him even when life is throwing curve ball after curve ball. The fact of the matter is saying you trust Him is just easier.

It's hard to trust something you can't see and may not even be getting responses from, it's hard to choose to trust. In essence, trust is a decision, but we're always trusting something.

And that's why my blog has the name that it does.

Because we have to choose to trust in Joy.

Essentially, we have two choices in this world, we can choose to trust the dark or the light, the seen or unseen, the grief or the joy.

I don't know about you, but I'm choosing joy and I'm choosing to trust in joy.

And I hope you do too.
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