Change is coming

As I sit here with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee in the air and the sounds of my boys playing, I am thinking about the change that is coming.

I am excited but also a little bit nervous because...

EXCITED: WE ARE BUYING A HOUSE AND WE'RE MOVING SOON! IN A MATTER OF WEEKS (TWO TO BE EXACT)!!

NERVOUS: OUR ROUTINE WILL BE DIFFERENT!!

I am a person who thrives on routine and my two year old is the same way!! As I was sitting here enjoying my coffee and having my devotion time while the boys play, I thought, " Oh my, in just a few weeks, this will look different. I won't have a living room where my boys are gated in. It will be open, our ROUTINE IS GOING TO CHANGE!!"

As excited as I am to buy a house and to have this particular house that we are buying, I am just as nervous about creating a new routine. What will our days look like until we have that new routine set and it becomes comfortable?

You see, we love comfort. Humans love comfort. We look for it everywhere and often times we are not open to giving it up for right things.

Am I so attached to our routine that I have thought about foregoing the new house so we can just stay right here where we are comfortable? Almost...but NO. I know this seems like a silly question but it happens so often.

We are not willing to give up a certain way we are comfortable living to do something God is asking us to do.

Change your Sunday morning routine so that you can volunteer at the church somewhere.

Yeah, feel that? That slight punch to your gut. That's what I'm talking about. Initially we feel that and think, "No,I can't. This is how we do things. I like the way things are going right now. I am comfortable." Maybe, you have just reached that place of comfort...like me.

I spent the last year completely overwhelmed and we are just getting to the place where I have moments like these to sit and drink my coffee and read my bible or write without my littlest man screaming the ENTIRE time.

Will it be hard to let go of that and try to find something new? Yes!  It will be hard for us to move out of one routine and find another. Yes, it will be hard, but I am willing.

I don't know if any of this makes any sense to anyone. Maybe I am the only one who thrives in comfort and routine.

I doubt it truly because I have learned that every time I think I am alone in something...I am not!

So change is coming and I don't know if I'll have moments like this once we move and that is OK. Because I fully believe that God has great things for us in the new house. Our routines will look different but different is not bad, it's just different.

Yep, that is my mantra when change happens...I HAVE to tell myself repeatedly, "Change is not bad. It is just different."

Change is quite good I have learned.

Change may always be hard for me but not as hard as it used to be. And each time I learn something new about God and myself.

Lord,
I pray that I would never get too comfortable and I pray that I would always be willing to follow you no matter how hard or how uncomfortable. I thank you today for this new house and I pray that you would help us find a new routine that helps us all to grow closer to YOU!! Lord I love you and I want to LIVE TO SERVE YOU!! In Jesus name. Amen.