Trust

A new challenge has appeared in our international adoption...

One which I have no control over...

And I don't like it.

Give me a problem I can attack and I am ready to roll.

Present me with an opportunity for horribilizing with little concrete action that can be taken, and I alternate between panic and terminal frustration.

Serenity is not my strong suit.

Yet, and perhaps BECAUSE of this trait, the Lord keeps calling me to imitate our Blessed Mother.

Courageous and strong...

And silently trusting.

Sure, she "showed up" to do the work she was presented with (for Elizabeth, for the apostles, at the foot of the cross)...

Sure, she suffered (how could she not, watching her precious son reviled and tortured and finally killed?)

But her trust in God never faltered, not for an instant....

Unlike the rest of us (me!) dealing with the fallout of original sin.

So my resolution is to "show up", do my work, pray a lot and suffer a bit (I will only be drinking water all of Holy Week until Easter Sunday morning)...

And invite Mary to be by my side all the way...

to teach me how to to trust.