WE TRUST IN GOD: A Novel of Faith, Love, Loss, Purpose, and the Journey Within

WE TRUST IN GOD >John is leaving Manila. After years building a successful life in a country that was never fully home, he sits in the passenger seat while Nituna drives him to the airport. The suitcase is light. The weight he carries is not. On the rain-slicked highway, a simple blue billboard appears: **WE TRUST IN GOD**. Four ordinary words. No logo. No explanation. For the first time, John cannot look away. The question rises unbidden: *Do I?* What follows is not a conversion story. It is a long night suspended between departure and arrival-an overnight flight across an ocean in which every memory, every failure, every quiet act of love, and every carefully managed ambition rises to meet him. He revisits the relationship with Nituna that frayed under the weight of competence and silence. He remembers colleagues who taught him honesty at a cost, a father whose decline he could not control from seven time zones away, the small unglamorous kindnesses of strangers, and the slow discovery that success had stopped answering the questions he was actually asking. Through turbulence, dimmed cabin lights, and the gradual approach of dawn, John confronts the limits of control, the difference between certainty and trust, the true shape of love that does not require possession, and the possibility that the most important things in a life are received rather than earned. *We Trust in God* is a deeply contemplative novel about what remains when the structures we build can no longer carry us. It is for anyone who has left a place they loved and carried its questions with them-anyone who has stood at the edge of a new chapter and wondered whether the next step requires more planning... or a quieter kind of courage. A story of departure, memory, and the slow discovery that some questions are not meant to be solved, only walked with.