Lesson #3 on becoming a YaYa Hiké: Trust the Everything Maker

According to Scout, the girl-shaped boulder in the book Kiva & the Stone Nation,  “We must trust that the Everything Maker will provide for us in ways we don’t always expect; sometimes from Mother Earth, sometimes from others.”

Trust...such a tiny word and such a big concept. Trusting the Everything Maker means first that we need to believe there is a power greater than us that made the Universe, and then we have to believe that this Source of All is a benevolent power wanting what is best for us.

For Kiva that meant that she needed to trust what her grandmother, Hota told her about her heritage and her abilities. For me it means that I trust my Source of All Things to know what is best for me. I remember hearing a speaker at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting I was visiting say that if he had not let go and let God he would have short changed himself. For him, God saw the big picture in a way that he could not. Those words made a profound impression on me and as the years have passed I too have worked hard to Trust my Creator.

Writing this book is a perfect example of my need to trust. I believe I was meant to publish this book. But after it was finished I had no idea of what came next. Yet over the years I've learned to suit up and show up everyday to find out what my next right step should be. Today it is to promote the book and continue to write more books and I have learned to leave the outcome to the Everything Maker.

My trust goes much further than this book and my writing. Everyday I must wake up and trust that I will be taken care of no matter what is going on around me. And whenever I find myself worried I am reminded of Matthew 6:25-34 where Jesus says, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."

How about you? I would love to hear about some of the areas of your life where you must Trust the Everything Maker. Sharing your favorite sayings and thoughts on the subject will help me on those days when I'm less trusting.

Thanks for visiting with me today & Happy Reading!