God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - The Serenity Prayer
Without a lack of trust, why would I ever to TRY to change anything? If I recognize that everything in reality is always changing AND always exactly as it should be, I have no need for anything but what is. I flow right along with it, untroubled.
And at some point in that flow, I notice - almost after the fact - that something has changed. It happens beyond my intention, beyond my attention, beyond my conscious effort, even if I’m involved. When I see that, I see that things are always changing, sometimes through me, sometimes not. And when I drop my opinion and arbitrary preferences for anything other than what is, I see that they should have changed to exactly what they are. What’s my alternative besides a soul-sucking war with reality that only results in my own loss of love?
When that sinks in, I begin to trust in the way of it. And when I do, I discover gifts that were there all along but just weren’t visible to me when I was so innocently at war.
When I experience the gift, I see the wisdom of trusting the way of it. But that wisdom is the wisdom of letting go of any need to be wise and giving myself over to a reality I now see can never fail me. I see that I have never needed to know ahead of time what should be. It all happens above my pay grade. I just give myself over to what is and love the experience of everything changing to exactly what it should be.
And then I anticipate nothing, judge nothing and let everything that happens wash over me and through me as the eternal gift that it is, without a moment’s separation from my calm, centered, ever-present and loving true nature.
Which is total trust in the way of it.