One of the best parts of vacation days is having a laid back morning.  There's no sound of the alarm. There's no trying to figure out what to wear.  Instead I can head to my favorite recliner to enjoy my coffee and conversation with God.  One of the things I'm learning, still learning at 56 years of age,  is how to trust God.  I certainly believe I trusted God in my 20's when I was learning how to live away from home and settle into a new career at Ashland Elementary in Lexington, KY.  In my 30's I trusted God's Word to keep me as I wondered through various paths in life both personally and in my career.  I trusted God to sustain me in my 40's as I walked through Virgil's battle with cancer and my ensuing season of grief.  Now in my 50's I'm digging even deeper into what does it really mean to trust God with the deepest parts of my heart and soul.  Oh we say...take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there.  Honestly, I'd then pick them right back up and proceed to tell the Lord exactly HOW I wanted all of those areas of my life handled.  Getting to honesties...did I really trust the Lord to work out every single part of life in whatever way He chose , no matter if I didn't like it, was bored with it, didn't understand it or it hurt my heart...could I trust Him and be perfectly at peace with it?  That's where I've been.  That's where I am in my still learning to fully trust God at 56.   Mornings like today are good for my soul...can I say with the hymn writer of old, "It is well with my soul?"  Yes.  Peace like a river comes to my way...a peace that passes all understanding when I trust God and let Him be God.