"In God We Trust", is the official motto of the United States of America and of the U.S. state of Florida. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, superceding E pluribus unum, "one from many" which had been in use since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States.

In God we Trust. The official motto of the United States. Those words are printed on our money. In the days when most of used cash we saw that motto many times a day, maybe sometimes we even paid attention to it.

Trust in God. What better place to put our ultimate trust when trouble comes? Should we put it people? In Governments? When there are things in life that come and rob your joy, make you feel so bad you can't sleep, can't eat, or hardly think a pleasant thought, who do you trust to help you? The people around you? The so called one from many? I don't think so. We as a peope are hardly united right now, which indicates to me that many are not trusting in God at all. If they, we, were putting our trust in God, I think we would have a common cause, something that ties us together, and that tie helps us to help each other, not fight and argue. Diane and I have learned the hard way that when we face something that needs fixing, it is too easy to disagree on how to to do it, so we hold hands and pray about it first. We put our trust in God, we unite, One from Three so to speak. Our motto for our whole marriage has been Two plus the One equals One. We trust in God. It is such a frustrating waste of time to not do that right from the beginning of each day.

So when you feel like troubles are hunting you down, when the news and people around you are troubling your spirit, when you think you just want to go hide in a cave somewhere then look up and put your trust in HIM. David had low points in his life, a lot of them actually and yet he put his trust in God, wrote songs about that trust, and the words of those songs have survived the ages and are here for us now to bless us and give us hope.

Psalm 31

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.