Seasons

I’m back to this blog after more than a month. The last couple of months have been a very unique season for our family. We have been in the thick of things getting things set for our counseling center and fitness center. This is part of our mission to play a part in bringing wholeness to people’s lives in the community that we are in. A mission stemming from the conviction that the Church needs to be every place where the brokenness of sin is experienced. It is an injustice when a human being cannot live up to their God-given purpose and potential. And so, here we are, doing what we do.

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Our Counseling room at the center. Our fitness center is opening on the 12th (Pictures might follow in another blog.)

We have also found a place for our gatherings as a community. A place where we can connect and grow in our faith together.

It’s been an altogether new season for me personally. It has required a lot of learning, a lot of change. It has called on me to be more patient, more organized, more active in my faith and more trusting in God’s grace. I wish I could say that I was “doing it all”. Not yet, but I’m learning.

One of the things that I’ve realized is that change is something we can’t avoid. It will come. It needs to. That’s the only way we can grow. But when it does come, it calls on us to rise to the challenge that it presents. Growth is painful, isn’t it? Whether it’s growing in age, physically, career-wise, relational, Even emotional growth can be tough.

But the change that comes with growth can be resisted. We can choose to either stick with our old patterns of doing things or allow for a new mind-set to set in. That takes a lot of hard work. But the thing that one needs to remember during those moments is that the challenges before us are meant to make us what we are meant to be even if it feels like it’s breaking us.

This is probably why Jesus responding to a question by John’s disciples about why his disciples don’t fast responded by saying,

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” Matthew 9:16-17

Sometimes we can be so glued to our old ways of thinking and doing things that we totally miss out on what God is doing right now. What he is calling us to do. God is creative, out-of-the-box, he might call you to do things that disrupt your normal routine. When that happens, its important to recognize the time that you are in, and ask Him what he is calling you to do in the moment. Maybe it’s taking time out to have those important conversations, Maybe it’s learning a new way to do something, maybe it’s going back to school or reading a book, or talking to someone more experienced that you are. The change in mindsets can and should come and there are different ways to go about it. But I want to encourage you to keep moving forward boldly in faith, being open to all that God is calling you to.

There’s more he has got in store for you.

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