Change. The word bring many mixed feeling for me. It can be scary, exciting, sad, happy, heartbreaking, painful, refreshing, and a million other things. Change means life is different than it was before. Change means things move forward, it means things don't stay the same as you have always known them to be.
Change is scary. Change isn't safe. But change can also be a very good thing, as it often is.
I just recently graduated. This is a huge change for me. Things will no longer be as they have been for me for the last 4 years of high school. I am no longer a high school student; I becoming a real am an adult now, with corresponding responsibilities. I am in a transition phase where I get to figure out who I want to become, and what I want to do with the rest of my life.
I look out at my life and I see a blank slate. You would think that that would be an encouraging and inspiring thing, and it is, but it is more scary than anything. Yes, I see all the good possibilities of things in my future, but I also see all the possibilities for all the mistakes, and I am sure I will make many.
It is at times like these where I become ever grateful to know that I can depend on God, knowing that He has a perfect plan for me and my life. I see a blank a slate staring at me, ominous and overwhelming. God sees His plan unfolding for me. He knows each step, each turn, even each mistake, and how He will work it all together for good. Knowing this gives me an unexplainable peace in my spirit, even as my flesh is still panicking.
Another recent change in my life is that I am now in a relationship with wonderful, godly young man. I'm not going to name him for the sake of privacy because this is posted publicly on the internet. Regardless, he is a very kind, sweet, and caring young man. This is a change I am very excited about, and I very much looking forward to seeing what the Lord will do with this relationship in the future.
We have known each other for a couple years now, and have become much closer friends over the last 9 months or so. Close enough that I count him among the select few I call my best and closest friends. The fact that we have had such a strong friendship before entering a romantic relationship, and the fact that we both share a strong faith in God and have personal relationship with Him, gives me great hope for our future together.
As exciting as this change is though, in this sort of change there is always a great risk. I am scared and cautious as I enter these new waters. Our relationship is unlike anything I have ever encountered, and I know that the farther I go into this, the more of my heart I am risking. At the beginning I panicked, but I am learning to control the fear and take the risk, because I believe God has a plan for this relationship. Even if it ends, God has healed my heart from heartbreak before, and I know He will be faithful to it again if this ends that way. And if it doesn't, I will be blessed many times over for taking the risk.
Change... The word hold a lot of weight, and a million different emotions. But in life, it is inevitable.
Change is scary. Change isn't safe. But change can also be a very good thing, as it often is.
I just recently graduated. This is a huge change for me. Things will no longer be as they have been for me for the last 4 years of high school. I am no longer a high school student; I becoming a real am an adult now, with corresponding responsibilities. I am in a transition phase where I get to figure out who I want to become, and what I want to do with the rest of my life.
I look out at my life and I see a blank slate. You would think that that would be an encouraging and inspiring thing, and it is, but it is more scary than anything. Yes, I see all the good possibilities of things in my future, but I also see all the possibilities for all the mistakes, and I am sure I will make many.
It is at times like these where I become ever grateful to know that I can depend on God, knowing that He has a perfect plan for me and my life. I see a blank a slate staring at me, ominous and overwhelming. God sees His plan unfolding for me. He knows each step, each turn, even each mistake, and how He will work it all together for good. Knowing this gives me an unexplainable peace in my spirit, even as my flesh is still panicking.
Another recent change in my life is that I am now in a relationship with wonderful, godly young man. I'm not going to name him for the sake of privacy because this is posted publicly on the internet. Regardless, he is a very kind, sweet, and caring young man. This is a change I am very excited about, and I very much looking forward to seeing what the Lord will do with this relationship in the future.
We have known each other for a couple years now, and have become much closer friends over the last 9 months or so. Close enough that I count him among the select few I call my best and closest friends. The fact that we have had such a strong friendship before entering a romantic relationship, and the fact that we both share a strong faith in God and have personal relationship with Him, gives me great hope for our future together.
As exciting as this change is though, in this sort of change there is always a great risk. I am scared and cautious as I enter these new waters. Our relationship is unlike anything I have ever encountered, and I know that the farther I go into this, the more of my heart I am risking. At the beginning I panicked, but I am learning to control the fear and take the risk, because I believe God has a plan for this relationship. Even if it ends, God has healed my heart from heartbreak before, and I know He will be faithful to it again if this ends that way. And if it doesn't, I will be blessed many times over for taking the risk.
Change... The word hold a lot of weight, and a million different emotions. But in life, it is inevitable.
