Trust Is an
Action
RUTH CHOU SIMONS
A few years ago , I was feeling intensely beaten down in the midst of trying to fix and figure out so many burdensome issues in our family , ministry , and business . These were heavy things that spanned everything from whether our family needed to relocate to finding a church home , from my husband considering what God called him to in the second half of his life to a deep need for true friendships , from how to meet the needs of our business while living in a smaller mountain-town community to whether we should continue to homeschool . The pressure was intense , and there was no margin for error . Troy and I felt the weight of all the chaos , all the questions , and all the unknowns , and it was taking a toll on our marriage . There was more distance , more bitterness , more guardedness with our pain , and we were quick to call out wrongs .
I remember thinking and acting as if solutions were equivalent to satisfaction in that season . That , somehow , control equaled peace . I even lost my mind once over a disorderly garage , as if a clean garage would fix everything . What I didn ’ t know then that I can articulate
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