This last of Mother Mary Loyola's full-length works may also be the most personal. Having begun her long life as an orphan, she wrote Trust near its end while confined to bed with a broken hip, patiently awaiting eternity. She was no stranger to suffering, loss, uncertainty, or the difficulty of accepting God's Will when we cannot understand it.
Yet Trust is no mere exhortation to resignation. Mother Loyola begins instead by showing us why God is worthy of our complete confidence. As Creator, Redeemer, and Father, in His omnipotence, wisdom, mercy, and love, He has given us countless proofs of His care. Only after establishing these grounds for trust does she turn to the tests by which that trust is strengthened: unanswered questions, difficult commands, prayer that seems unheard, suffering, and the surrender of our own will to His.
Drawing upon Scripture, the faith of the Patriarchs, the courage of saints and martyrs, and the simple trust of little children, Mother Loyola teaches us to see our trials not as evidence that God has forgotten us, but as invitations to know Him better and trust Him more completely.
There is something especially moving in this final lesson from a woman who had spent a lifetime teaching children. Father Thurston observed that in all those years she had not only taught them, but learned from them—and what they had taught her was the lesson she now passes on to us: the childlike trust that Our Lord Himself holds up for our imitation.
For we are all children of the same Father. And when every other ground of confidence seems to have fallen away, Trust teaches us to rest at last in the knowledge of Who He is—and to give Him what a loving Father asks of His child: love, loyalty, and unquestioning trust.
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