"trusting God"??

[DLL]

i have some thoughts about the phrase "trusting God". here lately in my support group, this statement or others similar, has come up quite a bit. i was wondering if anyone wanted to give some feedback on it.
i know "what" they mean when i am asked if i am trusting God through this, but yet i am still confused about it. i mean, i do believe that God has All the circumstances under His control and everything like that, but just because i "trust" Him doesnt mean those circumstances are going to necessarily turn out like i want. so am i "trusting" GOD, or am i trusting my trust.
like my son for example.....i trust that God is calling him to repentance, but if he never comes to that point of repentance, does that mean my trust failed? or we can trust God to protect our kids, but if they get killed or kidnapped, or mixed up with the wrong people......how does "trusting God fit into that scenario? when they were born, we all trusted God that they would grow up and be "good, christian kids " because we raised them according to what we thought was Gods direction. and 25 years ago i trusted God that my marriage would be a God honoring marriage. and now, i am trusting God to help me make the right choices on a daily basis. but sometimes i find out that some of those choices were not the right ones. so what happened? did God not "honor" my trust, or did I do something wrong.? i just get confused when people ask me about trusting God. im not questioning God, but i am questioning the reasoning behind that line of thought.
i just want to know what trusting God in our everyday life looks like.
donna