Trust

Completely have trust in God,
leave everything in His hands,
and believe that His love will act for your own benefit.
Then God will take care of everything,
because there is nothing He cannot do;
everything is easy for Him.
The difficult thing is for man to decide to humble himself
and leave everything to God’s providence and love. – Saint Paisios of Mount Athos

Trust, by definition, requires insecurity in need of being overcome. So when we pray for trust, we consent to insecurity.
i.e. to life.

Faith, when defined as radical trust in God’s fatherly providential care, is sustained by the ability to see God at work in all things.

Trust is the willingness to place the Kingdom of God, which is the world under God’s sway, as the central organizing principle of our life. “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well” (Mt. 6:33).

This means crying out day and night in prayer to God for every needful thing.

This means embracing obediently God’s ‘signified will’ in the moral law and his ‘will of good pleasure’ in the mysteriously manifest vagaries of everyday life that elude our control. Receiving reverently this uncontrollable sacrament in the present moment gives us free access to “all these things.”

This “embracing” means deliberately centering our life and loves on the person of Jesus, the epicenter of the Kingdom, on his teaching, and following him in his Church wherever he leads — while freely relinquishing anything that stands in the way. Especially our ego.

Reinhold Niebuhr’s original ‘serenity prayer’ applies so well here:
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
Courage to change the
things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the
pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this
sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make
all things right if I
surrender to His Will.
Amen.