Sr. Faustina, S.V., has explained the Litany of Trust as arising out of an inspired recognition that God does not so much ask as to consent to circumstances, but to Him.

The Lord just in His tenderness broke a little bit of that darkness of the months prior, and kind of lifted my eyes to His in a way, to say like, “I don’t want you to give your yes to a bunch of circumstances that can fit into your realm of understanding. I want you to give your yes, this precious gift that you have of choosing, of willing, of desiring; I want you to give that to Me.”

It was almost like He was saying, “Am I enough?” And that’s really the question that trust asks. God is saying: “Do you trust me, not for necssarily what I give you, or for what you can understand about Me, but do you trust me as a Person, as a Father, as a God, as a Friend?”

And so in that moment, it became beautifully painfully clear that I was holding on to something that really wasn’t important. What was really important in that moment was this consent to God, this free wholehearted consent, to give Him this unconditional “yes” that He had given me in creating me, in loving me into life.