Change is good? Prove it.

This weekend my wife and I had this great idea that we were going to change one of the rooms in our house. It had been used as a dining room and now we wanted to make it into an office. We got very excited and started to move furniture, take down pictures, hang new frames and we even added a small TV so we can watch our favorite shows while we "work". It was a fun day and at the end we just sat back and enjoyed what we had accomplished. We had successfully changed a piece of our life and had done it without a lot of pain or anguish.

Change is good when you can see it coming.

What about the change that you can't see coming?

The kind of change that sneaks up on you in the middle of the night and scares the daylights out of you. The kind of change that blindsides you when you are looking the other way or the change that happens in the blink of an eye. What about the change that happens without you even knowing it occurred?

Change is good? Prove it.

When change occurs we tend to want to fight it. We like normalcy, calmness and a sense of security in our lives and change brings upheaval, chaos, confusion and fear. We've all had to deal with change. Whether it be a lost job, death of a loved one, divorce, new child, marriage, new school......the list is endless. The question is not are we able to deal with the change but are we able to be patient with the change?

I truly believe that change poses an opportunity for all of us. I believe that many times God changes our lives in order to get us going in the direction that we need to be headed. We aren't able to see the future, and that scares us, but if we have faith in God than we should be able to trust that the future will take care of itself. Patience is what is needed when God throws us those curve balls.

When change occurs I tend to immediately start up a conversation with God. It is important for me to start that dialogue because when a dramatic change occurs it usually means that my life is about to change direction. It doesn't scare me, but it does put me on edge. The big changes in my life have always turned out to be positive, but it normally happened over a long period of time. The hardest part has always been to just wait for the change to run its course. My instinct is to jump into the fray and to try and fight my way out of any situation that may be affecting me. That has never worked.......ever. In fact, it usually made the change process harder and longer. If I just sit still for a second and let God do what He needs to do, my life has always been enriched in the end.

I hate to say this but change is a part of life. There is no way to combat change.....for just trying to fight against change is actually giving into the change process (think about that one for a second). If change is going to happen and there is nothing that we can do about it......then maybe we should learn to accept it.

When that change sneaks up on you in the middle of the night and scares you to death.....just be patient. It may be scary at first but once you turn the light on and get a good look at it....I bet you will actually be looking at a beautiful gift.

Change is a present from God that can last a lifetime.........sometimes it just takes a long time to open it.