I’ve never been a fan of change. It has the power to turn your world upside down and dangle you from your feet, toss you around, and throw you back down. For the past three years I’ve experienced this to the point that at times I was left feeling shaky, queasy, and off balance. Did good things happen? Yes! Did bad things happen? Yes! Did stressful and life changing things? Umm, yes. I’m still trying to wrap my head around some of them.
Three years ago, when I enrolled in college and pursued my degree, I couldn’t even envision the road that was in store for me. If you would have told me then that I would go back to school, have my third baby, buy a business, move that business, move back to our old house, watch family members struggle, sicknesses, trials, and seen my family grow closer to God and each other, studying, late nights of homework, tears, stress, and graduating with a 3.8, I probably would have laughed in your face, crawled under my covers, and never came back out.
It’s easy to be accepting of change when it brings something positive, and it can be scary when it’s not. However, the fact is change is going to happen, and there’s nothing that I can do about it. I can scream, question God’s plan, or crawl under a rock, but it’s still going to happen. The one thing I can do is choose if I’m going to GROW from the change. I can stay the same person I was yesterday, or I can learn, grow, and change into who God is calling me to be today. What about tomorrow? Perhaps one of my favorite characters, Anne Shirley, said it best: “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”
Hugs,
Erin
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