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“Trust the process” Connie Kleingartner, one of my seminary professors, would say. At the time, I did not want to trust the process, but there have been so many times since then when I have returned to Connie’s words with deep gratitude.
Now, as my 93-year-old father’s health is declining, and I worry that my young sons will not remember him…Trust the process. I do everything I can to nurture the relationship that my boys have with my dad. I take photos and videos to keep for the future. As best I can, I slow down and stay present, knowing that the moments I store in my heart matter more than anything I can capture on my phone.
Trust the process. Do what you can, and believe that God is still at work, in many and varied ways, in your life and in the world. Even when it seems hard or impossible to fathom, trust process. Trust the process of life unfolding, and more than anything, that God promises to be with us in each moment of it and love us through it.
This message is excerpted from “Trust the process.” by Jordan Miller-Stubbendick in the May 2020 Gather magazine.