Trusting God

When we started our time of missionary formation back in August, I had no idea what the Lord would ask of me during this year. It quickly became obvious that He desires for me to TRUST Him fully, completely, and with my whole heart. God showed me this in the most interesting ways including through a lot of physical activities like hiking, walking, biking, and some more hiking.

I had to trust God that my body was strong enough physically to do great things. During training, we hiked up what felt like a never-ending rocky set of stairs, walked 20 miles on a pilgrimage, and biked through the streets of Milwaukee.

Moving forward to November, two of us missionaries and a group of students at UW- Whitewater decided to go for a nice hike close to town on the last beautiful weekend of fall. We started with a one-mile loop around a pond where we saw a dog playing in the water and asked his owner to take a picture of our group. We finished the path we were on and then kept going on a different one, which we did not know would lead us far in the opposite direction of the parking lot.

Time flies by when you are having fun and let me tell you, I noticed that we kept walking for a while, but did not think much of it as I was deep in conversation with those around me. The sun was starting to set around us, and finally, the men came together to try and figure out where we were and how to get back to our cars before sunset.

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​This was another opportunity where God asked me to trust: trust the men were leading us in the right direction, trust the mile and a half we walked along a highway would end without any of us being hurt, trust we would make it back to our cars and this would be a great story to tell at a later time. ​

Trusting allowed me to cast my worries upon God and gave me the peace of mind necessary to keep me from missing some awesome sights: like my teammate Joe leading us all along the highway, the positivity of the students and their laughter which showed they were still having fun, and the most beautiful sunset as we reached our cars and drove to Dunkin Donuts. Let me tell you, hot chocolate was the perfect way to end such an adventure!

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Let us pray together
Jesus, I trust in you.

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​Greetings from Whitewater, Wisconsin! My name is Jocelyn Marin and I am a first-year missionary with Brew City Catholic, serving at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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