12/23/2025
Mystery is the price of spiritual growth.
Trust is a verb. It requires action. It takes GUTS to become willing to let go of the illusion of control.
I’ve been taught that contempt prior to investigation leads to everlasting ignorance. If that’s true, contempt doesn’t just keep me from learning—it keeps me from trusting. It shuts the door before I even look through it.
When it comes to faith and trusting something greater than myself, there will always be questions. There will always be mystery. And that’s the point: trust is how we move forward when certainty isn’t available.
It takes guts to trust only the next right step—to move without knowing exactly where I’m going, believing my Creator is leading me where I need to be.
It’s no different than the Israelites after leaving Egypt. They didn’t have the whole map. They had a direction, a promise, and the courage to take the next step anyway. What looked like anger was often fear… and they kept moving.
That’s what trust looks like: letting go of old ways of thinking, staying open-minded, and moving forward in faith—not because I have all the answers, but because I’m willing to follow what’s right in front of me.
Today: I don’t need the whole map. I just need the next right step.
