ទុកចិត្តព្រះ (Tuk Chit Pres)

Trust in God

I have it tattooed on my wrist for a reason. As a reminder, because I forget.

Life is hard, some days harder than others. Minutes ago I sat here freaking out about everything that's going on in my life. I suddenly and unexpectedly have to find a new place to live as soon as possible and that entails so much. I felt like I was doing everything virtually alone regardless of my roommate. But then I read my devotion for the day and I phrase caught me after reading it a second time, "Fearful, anxious thoughts melt away in the light of my presence".

I forget.

I forget all too easily that I need to trust Him. That is the reason this year for a final ten page paper in a class I wrote about it, about what trusting in God looks like yet I still forget to do it. I can look at His blessings and thank Him, I can think about His grace and love Him for it, yet time and time again I forget to rely on Him. I can only pray that this tough time that I am going to will teach me more about trusting the Lord and relying on His promise that He's got my back.

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” 
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” 
― Stephen King

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I may not always be with you 
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart” 
― Marc Wambolt

“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” 
― Khalil Gibran