Hello! Now Let's Change!

First off, WELCOME TO 2016!!! I know we are a “few” days into the new year, but I haven’t gotten the chance to welcome everybody.  Gosh, it feels like forever ago since I’ve been here.  And please, my apologies for being MIA.  I’ve actually been in the stewing pot reviewing, revamping, and creating some new things.  I am SO thankful to God for choosing to allow me to see another year in both my birthday (mid December) and the new year!

Sooo much has taken place and though some of that much was bittersweet, I’ve come to understand it was necessary. A lot hit my family and I right at the smack end of the year.  But again, it was necessary.  Had some of those events not happened, I don’t think I’d be on the track I’m on now.  God has a plan, has always had a plan, and will carry it out for good in mine and your life (Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28). So I chose and choose to trust Him. I hope you do too! J

So...all of that processing led to me thinking…thinking of course about change.  This is what I got.

In order for change to take place, we must be willing to change.

I remember growing up, I was terribly shy. I hated making eye contact or doing anything that would draw unwanted attention.  Having that trait coupled with fear didn’t make things better.  I kind of outgrew one of them (shyness) but the other, I enabled for so long until it crippled me.  It wasn’t until recently, and I mean as recent as the last year or so, that I decided to divorce fear.  I had had enough and I wanted out.  I wanted to change.  Needed to change.  And so I started the process. 

See, I think one of the biggest issues with change is this…we become so comfortable where we are, even when we know where we are isn’t good for us.  We get trapped in our own vices.  Sabotage our own freedom.  But the truth is and remains that if we don’t make the deliberate, intentional decision to change and be set free, we will always be that caged bird on the inside, looking out. We have to decide that being uncomfortable and moving forward in God’s assigned destiny is better than being complacent and miserable. We have to be willing to take God by His word and follow Him as He leads us (Proverbs 3:5,6).  I know sometimes the way looks foggy or downright unrecognizable, but as we learn to see with faith and not our own understanding, change becomes a bit easier to enter into (2 Corinthians 5:7).

So what steps have you started to take to make sure your change isn’t sabotaged? 

I pray y’alls new year has been off to a great start. Blessings!! J