a Month of Virtue: Trust: 30 Days to More Abandoned Heart

Most of us know that God can be trusted. We believe it. We would say it without hesitation.And yet we worry. We grip outcomes. We rehearse contingencies. We lie awake running through what might go wrong, even as we pray. Knowing God is trustworthy and resting in that knowledge are not the same thing - and for many devout Catholics, the gap between them is wide and quietly exhausting.A Month of Virtue: Trust is a thirty-day formation book for souls who want to close that gap. Each day offers a short reflection drawn from the Catholic tradition - from de Caussade on the sacrament of the present moment, from Abraham's obedience and Our Lady's fiat, from St. Ignatius's Suscipe and St. Thérèse's confidence in God's mercy - followed by a verse of Scripture (Douay-Rheims), a single concrete resolution to carry through the day, and a brief closing prayer.This book will not promise that trust makes things go well. What the tradition promises is something more durable: a peace that cannot be explained by circumstances, a quietness of soul that holds even when prayers seem unanswered, plans collapse, or the darkness does not lift. The trusting soul is not the one who feels no fear. It is the one who has learned, slowly and with God's help, not to be governed by it.Written especially for anxious, grieving, or scrupulous readers for whom trust can feel impossible, and for anyone who has carried a prayer for years without receiving what they asked for, this book offers thirty small steps toward the abandoned heart - the soul that has placed itself in God's hands and chosen, day by day, to leave it there.Small enough to read in a few minutes a day. Faithful enough to carry for a lifetime.

Pagina's: 157, Paperback, Independently published