Trust is what gives life meaning
According to the Course, all of us are teaching all the time. (The Teacher’s Manual, ACIM). Through our words and actions, we either teach love or fear, and when we choose to consciously teach love we step into the simple, powerful role of one of God’s teachers. It’s that simple. No training or complex knowledge base needed.
Just this week I found the text below in an old file. It comes from a piece written about faith. The word faith has been changed to trust.
Living life on a trust only basis is what makes life worth living. It gives life its meaning …trust is leaping across gaps that exist between the known and the unknown. The proven and the unproven; the actual and the possible. the grasp and the reach. The “I’ve got it” and “I want it”; the knowledge and the mystery; life and death; time and eternity
Trust is making a decision before you’ve solve all the problems
Trust is making commitments before you can be assured that everything will work out
Trust is moving ahead before you have answers to all the questions
Trust is taking a risk without being fully insured
Trust is choosing to believe before there is total proof
The Teachers Manual emphasizes that trust is not passive blind faith but an active alignment with the guidance of Love — a willingness to let go of the ego’s need to control outcomes and to listen instead for the voice that teaches through forgiveness, clarity, and compassion. Trust becomes the practical expression of teaching by example: when we allow the Holy Spirit’s (Higher Power for those allergic to words such as Holy Spirit) guidance to direct our decisions, our presence conveys a calm certainty that dissolves fear in others. Teaching love, then, is less about having answers and more about demonstrating the courage to act from trust, making gentle choices that invite others to remember their own capacity for love.
For many of us, living from trust is difficult — it requires admitting we don’t know and relinquishing the illusion of control. Yet the manual reminds us that trust grows through practice: by choosing forgiveness over grievance, by listening more than reacting, and by offering our imperfect attempts at love as lessons. In doing so we not only teach others but reinforce our own willingness to step into life courageously, proving that a life taught from trust is the life most fully aligned with Love.
