A while ago, while I was at church, the priest made an interesting point. That change can be good. Wow. Crazy right. A lot of us get so stuck in our routine that we don't really do anything to stray from it. Or we are so focused on the plan that we have for ourselves that we refuse to let something change it. Which I think is like trapping yourself in a bubble that we can't get out of. Why? Because it's safe.
Let me demonstrate. When I was in high school I was overweight. Not much of a shocker since I've said this before. But my senior year I vowed to myself I would work out for prom. And that didn't really start until maybe mid-January. When I went shopping for my dress and found the perfect one, I made sure to work hard to keep fitting in the dress. When I went to a fitting, because the dress was too long, I thought the dress was tight and I panicked. It was a week before prom and I didn't think I was going to fit into the dress. So after another week of going hard of eating right and working out, I was ready. The day of prom I tried my dress on and it was a bit loose. Loose enough that I was a little scared to lift my arms up. Because it could have fallen.
After prom I stopped. Because it was hard. And I went back to not working out and not eating well. It's all I've known. And while I've made attempts to lose weight by eating well and exercising I can't really keep it up because it's hard. Change is hard. We tend to give up on our efforts because of a mental road block. Most of which come from looking back at our past failures. But taking ourselves out of our comfort zone can be good. Besides we can do anything we put our mind to and with God by our side.
Change seems scary and as I'm going through the beginning of the new year making a lot of changes something that I like to say is this: God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good. And the best is yet to come. Because no matter what you want, God has an amazing plan for you. We just have to be open to change and work hard when granted opportunities.
