the pain of change pt. 2

Seasons change. 

They slip through our fingertips like sand.

We learn how to build then must renovate all over again. 

Lay down our preferences and put new stakes in the ground

We widen 

Deepen

Our capacity expands

You open our hearts to be more dependent on you over and over again 

With you, there is no end

Just beginning after beginning, peeling away my selfishness and widening the lengths

The lengths of my life, the widths of your love, the heights I’m going too are lengthening

Deepening my understanding 

Letting hope rise within 

Selflessness, the seasoning 

Salt and light, I am

Seasons change

Oh, how they shift

As swift as sand through my finger tips

Sharpen my senses

Rise my character to the stakes

May I know I’m not the result of my pain

I’m more than what I gain, who I am is what I give looking for nothing in exchange except for the joy of pouring all of myself so others may experience the joy, peace, and hope of true life change within

The pain of change

Just like coins in my wallet, changing requires an increase in value

I go from 1 cent to 2 to 5 cents to 10

Upwards, I go, expecting nothing more than valuable, healthy growth

Healthy, healthy, you call me to grow

To expand, to be different

To give it my all even if I blow it

I’m here to show others he who is greater who is living inside of me

He’s given me peace that won’t be complete unless you take some of it too

Don’t let the pain of change take it out of you

You aren’t losing anything, you’re gaining something.

The parts of your life that are rough, they’re creating you to be tender and tough

Able to withstand the elements and soft enough to maintain your innocence (Matthew 10:16)

Malleable

Moldable

We’re meant to adapt to change as surely as the palms do when it rains

They bend and they fold, still standing strong with the weathers ever-changing ways

So it is with you - meant to maintain

Meant to change

God will teach you too evolve.

God will teach you the way. 

He’ll teach you too obey

His word is what we walk on, stronger than the wind and the waves

Forever stands and never changes.

Jesus, you’re the one I cling too when the pain of change seems to get its way

You’re the one I cling too as my life shakes

In the wake of the inevitable, you’re the light of all my days

The pain of change is difficult

But let it make me different - by the power of your Word, steady and firm. 

Never bending or breaking by the unsteadiness of this earth

The pain of change will not be for my detriment but will actually be for a great destiny to be birthed

Like Pennies falling into the sink, I’ll fall into your arms all over again and watch as you take the old me and mold my life into a new one - not marked by the pain of change but by hopeful expectations of new beginnings

Another chance to build. Watch miracles unfold. 

To live a life of purpose, on fire for the Gospel and living from the greatest story ever told