Faith is a living trust, a trust in God that is life giving, a trust that God's presence abides wherever we are led. The look on Jesus' face reminds us that trust is a reorientation of our spirits that doesn't change where we are, but who we are. This living trust gives us eyes for seeing the world robed in the light of God's glory. There is nowhere and no one so utterly lost as to be without the presence of God standing, waiting, just outside the door. Living trust is a radical openness that redeems the routine of our lives.
Faith is also an enlivening trust.
It fuels action and directs activity. Today looking at the Humanity of Jesus, I envision Him riding to his uncertain future, trusting deeply, to the bitter end, in the saving grace of God. Common sense didn't take Jesus to Jerusalem on a donkey's back in broad daylight. Sheer strength of will did not keep him on his palm-strewn path. An unswerving trust brought him all the way, all the way home, safe, in the palm of God.