When God Said "Trust Is My Love Language"

I wasn't expecting Him to say anything at all.

I was sitting in a quiet moment, heart a little full, mind running ahead of me the way it does when there's too much on the calendar and not enough stillness. And then, gently, unexpectedly, into that space came something I can only describe as a whisper...

"Trust is My love language."

I sat with it for a long time. I'm still sitting with it now.

If you've ever had a moment like that... where God says something so simple and so deep that you don't know whether to write it down or just breathe... then you'll understand why I couldn't shake it. And why I wanted to doodle it. Because some things are too big for words alone.

The Quiet Ache Underneath the Busy Life

I wonder if you know this feeling.

You're not a stranger to God. You've sat with Him in the quiet before. You've experienced His presence, come away changed, known deep in your bones that He is real and He is good.

And yet... somewhere between the full calendar, the people who need you, the decisions that keep you up at night, and the creeping sense that you should be doing more, trusting more, believing more... you've drifted a little. Not far. But enough to feel the distance.

Maybe you're carrying something right now that feels too heavy. A health scare. A relationship that isn't healed yet. A future that feels uncertain. A season that is costing you more than you thought you had to give.

And underneath all of it, if you were honest, there's a question you've been almost too nervous to say out loud:

Can I really trust Him with this?

That question doesn't make you faithless. It makes you human. And I think it makes you exactly the person He most wants to speak to right now.

What Trust Actually Looks Like (It Isn't What I Thought)

Here's what I used to think trust looked like. I thought it looked polished. Peaceful. Certain. The raised hands and the unshakeable smile. The woman who had worked through her doubts and arrived somewhere steady.

But then I came across this moment in Mark 9 that I haven't been able to leave alone. A father brings his desperate, suffering son to Jesus. Jesus asks if he believes. And the man's response is one of the most honest things in all of Scripture:

"I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief." Mark 9:24, NLT

That is not polished faith. That is not arrived faith. That is honest, incomplete, trembling-at-the-edges faith... and Jesus healed his son anyway.

Trust, I'm beginning to understand, isn't a destination. It's an ongoing act of turning toward Him with whatever you actually have. Not the faith you wish you had. Not the faith you think you should have. The real thing, however incomplete it might be.

In my 34 years as a speech therapist, I worked with people navigating some of the most frightening seasons of their lives... stroke, brain injury, loss of voice, loss of independence. And what I observed again and again was this: healing didn't begin when people felt certain. It began when they were willing to take the next small step, even afraid. Trust works the same way.

It is not the absence of fear. It is the willingness to move toward Him anyway.

Why Creativity Opens the Door to Trust

This is something I discovered almost by accident, and it's become the foundation of everything I now do with Creative Sanctuary.

When we slow our bodies down to create, something shifts neurologically. Our nervous system begins to settle. The fight-or-flight static that keeps us reactive and defended... the same static that makes it hard to hear a whisper... begins to quiet. And in that quieter place, something becomes possible that wasn't possible before.

We can actually receive.

That's what the Spirit-Led Sketch Method is built on. It isn't about making beautiful art. It's about creating conditions where God can get a word in edgeways. When your hand is moving slowly across a page, making simple marks... a doodled heart, a single word, a botanical sprig, a wavering line that turns into something you didn't plan... you are not performing. You are not producing. You are simply present.

And presence is where trust is built.

The Proverbs put it this way: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take." Proverbs 3:5-6, NLT

Not figure it out. Not have it together. Trust. Seek. And He will show you.

One Small Thing You Can Do Today

You don't need a full afternoon or a perfectly set-up creative space. You need 10 minutes and something to write with.

Open to a blank page. Write the phrase at the top: "Trust is Your love language." Then sit with it. Ask Him one question: "What do You want to say to me about trust today?" Then doodle whatever comes. It might be a word. It might be a shape. It might be something that surprises you.

Don't edit. Don't judge what appears on the page. This is a conversation, not a performance.

At the bottom of the page, write whatever you heard. Even if it was small. Even if it felt like nothing. Write it down anyway.

That is the Spirit-Led Sketch Method in its most simple form. And I have seen it open doors in women's hearts that years of reading and studying hadn't been able to unlock.

The Morning He Met Me in the Doodle

I want to tell you about one morning last year.

I was sitting with my journal, carrying something I hadn't told anyone yet... a weight I was still trying to manage quietly on my own. I opened to a blank page and started to doodle, not because I felt inspired but because I'd learned that you don't have to feel inspired to begin.

I drew a heart. Simple, lopsided, the way my hearts always are. And then, almost without thinking, I wrote inside it: "He knows."

Two words. And something in me broke open in the best possible way.

Not because I'd figured anything out. But because in that quiet, creative moment, something shifted from my head to my heart. He knows. He sees. He hasn't gone anywhere. And that was enough for that morning.

That is what trust feels like when it's honest. Not triumphant. Just... enough.

Your Next Gentle Step

If this post stirred something in you... if you're carrying a question you haven't said out loud, or a season that's cost you more than you expected... I want to invite you into something simple.

The Doodle with God experience is a 7-step creative prayer practice I created for exactly this kind of moment. It's not a course. It's not a programme. It's a gentle, guided space to slow down, pick up a pen, and let Him meet you in the making.

It's just $7. And it might be the most important 7 dollars you spend this week.

[Doodle with God — $7: https://creativesoulspace.com/quiet]

You don't need art skills. You don't need to have your faith together. You just need a blank page and a willingness to show up.

He'll take it from there.

You Were Never Meant to Carry This Alone

If something in you has been stirred reading this... if there's a grief you've been holding quietly, not sure it even counts, not sure God cares... I'd love to walk a little of this with you.

Doodle with God is a gentle creative prayer guide I made for women exactly like you. It's $7, it needs no artistic skill at all, and it will show you how to bring whatever you're carrying to God through colour and quiet and simple mark-making.

You'll find it here: https://creativesoulspace.com/quiet

Your grief is not too much for Him. And whether it's now or further down the road... if you ever just want to be real about it, you're not on your own.

Other links

• Doodle with God offer page — https://creativesoulspace.com/quiet

And if you'd like a gentle daily creative practice to bring you back to yourself... Doodle with God is waiting for you. No skill needed, no special supplies — just you, a pen, and five quiet minutes with God.

P.S. Those who sign up to the workshop and attend live will get the accompanying workbook

A Space to Bring Your Whole Self

If your soul is quietly telling you that it needs more than another quiet time routine… that it needs space, rest, and a completely different kind of encounter with God…

I want to tell you about something I'm creating for a small group of women this September.

From the 25th to the 28th of September 2026, I'm hosting a luxury creative retreat on the Isle of Wight — three nights at a beautiful farm in Ryde, fully catered, with no agenda except to slow down and hear God again.

We'll spend our days art journaling, sketching, and exploring. We'll visit Osborne House — Queen Victoria's summer home on the island. She was herself a keen artist, and there's something quietly extraordinary about standing in the rooms where she created, as women who are finding their own creative voice.

My partner Adam will lead worship. My son Toby, a fine art photography student, will capture the retreat. Our chef Katrina Collins will feed us extraordinarily well.

It is intentionally small. Intentionally unhurried. Intentionally a space where your prayers don't need to be words.

If your heart lifted a little reading that — pay attention to that lift.

🔗 Find out more about the Isle of Wight Retreat here: creativesoulspace.com/retreat2026

And if you're not quite ready for a retreat but want to begin doodling with God today, start here: creativesoulspace.com/quiet — it's just $7 and it's the gentlest possible first step.

Come and find me at https://christianartjournaling.com/creative2026 ~ there's a whole community of women here who are finding their way back to God, one mark at a time.