Still Enough to Trust Him
Faith & Caregiving | March 14, 2026
Today was one of those days where you don’t do anything grand — and yet everything matters.
I did laundry. I sat with my mother. I listened to her when she wasn’t feeling quite like herself — confused about what day it was, wondering about a possible UTI, mentioning her doctor’s appointment on Tuesday. Nothing dramatic. Nothing resolved. Just presence.
And I’ll be honest with you — I have things I want to do. Things God has placed in my heart. Projects, plans, people I want to reach. And there are days when it takes everything in me not to feel the pull of those things tugging against where I actually am right now.
But I never want to be selfish. And I know that things take time.
So today, I made a choice. Instead of letting worry creep in about Mama’s health, I gave it to God. Instead of resenting the pause in my plans, I asked myself a simple question: How would I want someone to respond to me, if I were in her situation?
That question changed everything.
Because caregiving — real caregiving — isn’t about fixing. It’s about showing up. It’s about meeting someone exactly where they are, not where you wish they were or think they should be. It’s about looking at them the way God looks at us: with patience, with presence, and with love that doesn’t require them to be okay first.
“Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10 (KJV)
That verse kept coming back to me today. And I want you to know — being still is not the same as giving up. It is not passive. It is one of the hardest, most active things a person can do. It means you are choosing to trust God with the outcome you cannot control, while remaining lovingly present in the moment He has given you.
If you are caring for someone right now — a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a friend — I want you to hear this: Where you are is not a detour from your calling. It may be the very heart of it.
I also spoke with some folks today about the power of the tongue — about how death and life are in the power of what we speak. And I want to encourage you to do the same. Don’t just carry the weight of caregiving in silence. Speak blessings over your loved one. Speak life over yourself. The Word says you can command blessings in your life — and that includes right here, in the laundry and the doctor’s appointments and the ordinary, sacred days.
Today I’m grateful. Not because everything is resolved. But because God met us right where we were — and that was more than enough.
Be still. And know that He is God.
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Reflection question for you: Is there someone in your life right now who just needs you to show up — not with answers, but with presence? What would it look like to meet them exactly where they are today?