Good morning! I’m sure many of you reading this are about to begin not only a new day but you are also in a new place, whether it is a school, job or EVERYTHING might be new. It’s funny because we pray and we beg for a change of scenery, to start a new chapter, begin fresh and try new things but when the prayer is granted we find part of ourselves wanting to reach back and hold on to what is familiar…comfortable…safe. I know when I stepped out to sell our home I was just wanting to step out and try something new, live in a new neighborhood, offer my kids a little more room, but now that the house is sold and I’m living with my in-laws facing the ‘unknown’ I find that I want to wish myself back to the beginning of July before we put the house on the market. I want to go back to what was my norm then. On the other hand, if I think back to that then I remember what set me out on this new adventure and I get excited again. It’s the interim that is so hard because we are turning the page. I’m a visual person (and I have a strange mind) but imagine if God literally had you balanced on this great big book of YOUR LIFE and you were on the right side at the very bottom, if you were to look back you would see the last sentence, the very last word and the period that ends the chapter. God has His hand poised at the corner of the page, gently lifting it up turn to it to the next chapter and you are balanced, hanging on the edge as He flips it over before you settle comfortably, safe and sound on the new page, on the left side of the book at the very top.
You see, if this is that transition period between what was then and what is to come you’ll have that precarious moment of turning the page, balancing on the edge before you fall into a new norm, a new sense of comfort. Thankfully, no one, especially God, keeps a page up in a mid-turn…it can’t be done. The law of gravity would turn it for you! It’s going to happen… you WILL find peace again and then you’ll look back on the older chapters in your life and think “Wow, I could never fit in that norm again.”
Anyway, thanks for letting me share a bit of my mind with you today, as crazy as it is sometimes. I will be saying a pray for ALL of you starting out new today…and for those of you settled into your norm, say a prayer for us too!