When I walked into the songwriting session to meet Jessie Early for the first time, it felt a lot like we were old friends. We spent the first hour or so of our write getting to know each other, and when it came time to get down to writing we were completely on the same page with what we wanted to say. While we had both been in seasons surrounded by trials and circumstantial pain, we also both felt the reality of God’s presence within those situations. We also were both new mothers at the time, which I think contributed to the picture we imagined as we wrote the verses of Trusted. We imagined God as a father carrying his baby through a storm. A parent whose heart breaks when his child feels pain, yet who also delights in being that safe place for the hurting child - who cherishes the closeness that comes with the sorrow experienced.

The intimacy that comes when a parent carries a child, protects a child, holds a child…that is the simple picture of relationship with God. The baby is completely embraced in the caregiver’s arms, protected. The storm is the place where trust is strengthened, deepened, and realized. My hope for this song is that it serves as a reminder to you, that every single situation in your life is a place where God can be trusted. Surrendering to his ways, trusting his heart, resting in his arms…this is the way of a child of God. I pray that you may be filled with peace as you trust in him, no matter what is going on around you. He is faithful in all he does.

The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13

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