By Casey Iwanaga

“In God we trust” a phrase stamped on each coin, each bill, in speeches and papers that founded this nation, spoken by politicians who don’t mean it and people who don’t believe it. A phrase that gets tossed around during the calm and quickly forgotten during the storm, making us the hypocrites as we throw a fit. Asking God to change our circumstances, our politicians, our daily life, all to selfishly benefit ourselves just for a bit. How do we submit and genuinely mean that phrase when we wanna quit? We take a step back and let God work in us, bit by bit. Until we don’t need money, politicians or the world to remind us who we trust in. Until that phrase isn’t just relevant in our lives but ingrained in it, so when the calm or the storm comes we can wholeheartedly mean it.

Casey Iwanaga is a junior at the University of California in Merced. Her father is a retired pastor currently serving as Chairman of the OMS Holiness Churches.