A Change Would Do You Good

It's been sooo long... Sooo much is happening right now!

This seems to be a season of change in our lives.
Change is good.
Right?

As a mom I of course try to raise my son in such a way that he is able to handle change. A way that he is willing to embrace change. I want him to understand that just because something has always been done a certain way or just because we like something one way, change just might make it even better. But I also want him to understand commitment, change shouldn't always be the first option. Just because something is hard doesn't mean we quit and look for a change.

So here we both sit in a season of change. Only time will tell how we will handle all of these new opportunities. It's time to let go of how things have been for awhile.

It seems like everything happening over the next few weeks is the end of something. Last weekend, my son played his very last recreational soccer game. He has played rec soccer since he was 4 years old, he is now 14, that is roughly 19 seasons of soccer. Last week we attended his last sports award banquet as a Bulldog. He went on his 8th grade trip, a time to make some last minute memories as a Bulldog, with kids he has gone to school with since possibly preschool. Last week I quit making excuses and started working out and watching what I eat again. Here come the next 50 pounds gone! Thursday will be my last day at a job I have truly grown to love, with people I have grown to love over the past 4 years. Next week my son will graduate from the only school he has known for 10 years (including preschool). Two weeks after that we will leave the United States for the first time.

It is so important that we not get to caught up on all that seems to be ending. It's important that we look to all that will be beginning!

Recreational soccer is ending, but high school sports are just beginning. I can't wait to watch my son continue to grow and develop in soccer and basketball, two things he absolutely loves. Even though 8th grade is coming to an end, high school is just beginning. I hear so many bad things about high school, and the high school years, but I feel it's like so many other things in life, and it will be what he decides to make of it. I look forward to watching him grow into a young man and make decisions that will impact the path his life will take. While I'm leaving my job, I'll soon be jumping into something new and I'll hopefully grow to love it just as much or more. And traveling to central America? This is just full of possibilities that I can't even begin to guess at.

I am super excited about all of the possibilities that lay ahead of us in the months and years to come. It has been amazing to watch God work over the past few years, months and especially the last few weeks. I know that throughout all of these changes there will be good days and there will be really difficult days. I pray in these times, whether it's weight loss, getting healthy and stronger, a new school, a new job or everything else that will be thrown at us, that we remember who is in control. That we seek His voice to guide us. That we look back on past times where things got hard and we wanted to give up and we see all we have in the present we would be missing out on if we had done just that.

While in our family there are some pretty big changes just around the corner. The advice holds true for every day life as well. Never get so caught up in the past or the difficult days that you miss the present and lose hope. Every morning, no matter what choices we made yesterday, we can choose to start anew. Every day we need to commit to God that we want less of us and more of Him, even when it's difficult or new.