Trusting GOD With Me

When I stopped showering, I knew I wasn’t okay. But GOD didn’t leave me there. A spoken declaration for anyone who needs to trust again, starting with themselves.

Girlies. Honey. DreamGirlies. Fellas Too.

The end of June 2025 swept through my life like a sudden, ruthless, disorienting storm. The layoff hit hard, snatching the air from my lungs. Behind the digital veil, I sat in silence, DreamGirlie undone, shedding tears, neglecting myself in ways I couldn’t admit at first.

I didn’t shower for ten days.
Not a typo. Ten. Days.

And if you know me, you know that’s not me. I’m a fragrance girl. A dress-up-for-the-day girl. A spritz-twice-and-still-moisturize kind of woman. I love to feel good in my skin. But those ten days? I couldn’t bring myself to feel anything. My body felt foreign. My spirit felt emptied out.

Depression didn’t knock it, it crept back in like it knew the way. I recognized the signs. I’d fought this beast in my 20s and 30s. Back then, climbing out was a whole war. Healing didn’t come on a vision board; it came through grit, surrender, and community. I promised myself I’d never fall back that far.

But here I was. Slipping.

Then came Sunday, July 20, 2025.

I am sitting at my kitchen counter, mid-scroll, poised to apply for a lateral job I didn’t even want, one that fear and insecurity told me I had to apply for. I reached out to the COO of the organization that had just let me go, letting her know I needed to list her as a reference. Her response was kind, supportive.

But it wasn’t her words that broke me.

It was a moment.

A divine interruption.
A FATHER and daughter reset.
A conversation between me and GOD:

“LORD, I trust YOU with the outcome.
But more than that, I trust YOU with me.”

That one line is carrying me every day.
And I believe it can carry someone else, too.

A Spoken Declaration: Trusting GOD With Me

LORD,
I trust YOU with the outcome—
but more than that, I trust YOU with me.

My timing is in YOUR hands.
My becoming is in YOUR care.
YOU are not just writing the story—
YOU are carrying the storyteller.

YOU are faithful to finish what YOU start.
YOU do not forget what YOU formed.
YOU made me, and YOU will sustain me.
YOU guard what I entrust to YOU—
my future, my purpose, my breath.

I do not stand on outcomes.
I stand on YOUR character.
Rooted. Covered. Carried.
I release control, but I keep my confidence—
because my confidence is in YOU.

Even when I don’t see the way,
I declare: I am not lost.
I am exactly where YOU have me—
and YOU are here with me.

Amen.

Scriptures to Anchor This Declaration:

Psalm 31:14–15 (NIV)
But I trust in you, Lord; I say, ‘You are my God.’ My times are in your hands.

Isaiah 46:4 (NLT)
I will be your God throughout your lifetime... I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.

Psalm 138:8 (ESV)
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Jeremiah 17:7–8 (NIV)
But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him... they will be like a tree planted by the water... its leaves are always green.

2 Timothy 1:12 (AMP)
I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

This declaration is for:

The mornings when your faith feels thin.
The afternoons when another rejection email lands.
The nights when you wonder if GOD forgot the thing you prayed for months ago.

HE has not.

Let this be your cadence.
Speak it until the fear has no room.
Until your trust outweighs your worry.

Until then—

May trust meet you where understanding runs out.
And may you always remember:
GOD is not just trustworthy with the outcome.
HE is trustworthy with you.

Still standing. Still fire. Still HIS.
Don’t let the perfume fool you, obedience has grit.

Ms. Maine / Girl, Why Girl, Yes—YESD Confidence