Weaver of Things

The weekend has been full of an awareness that I am standing on the sidelines to what seems to be a cloud of change is in the air. Im highly aware of peoples response to change, their gut reaction, head reaction or delayed reaction…. simply reaction! 

Sometimes it seems people come overwhelmed with reality that change is coming, its about to occur, leaving a state of unknown lingering about. Strange to think that all beginnings must eventually come to an end so a new beginning, a new season, can commence. It's very representation of newness stirring up change in our souls. 

I think we need to take the opportunity to look ahead at what can be and forget the what have. Its a challenge without question, to seek a new season of thinking, speaking or acting in a more positive light. Each subtle change we implement towards living a more positive life will eventually take root and manifest itself into our daily lives. 

Sometimes I wish I had courage to say to people, do you not see the Lord swinging wide open a new door? when someone confronts me with that sense of fear of change.

When the Lord is ready to bring something else, He does miraculous work in the details - not so we can have perfect lives, rather that He can show His power in all its glory. Can you not sense that excitement laying on the floor boards floating up as the Lord weaves an intricate web all around us, using each person and every circumstance. No detail is out of his reach. No nuance too small and He is crafting a tapestry that tells His story, to bring glory to His name. 

We are a fine thread in that tapestry, with an end result going to be beautiful, but right now in this moment, only one thread perspective is held. Sometimes we will be weaving under, with view getting a little darker. Other times we will be soaring as He pulls us up into a new stitch, new light. TRUST in the Weaver of Things, be it dark or light from where your sitting, as only He can see the grand design. 

When change comes, its only natural that fear and anxiety may arise to present its ugly head, but there is an Advocate to help us through. The Lord is never surprised!!!! Never forget to put Him into the equation of change, as He is always gently reaching a hand back to help move forward in what seems like He is unraveling your thread; He is simply altering something to complete His design. 

Oh how the Lord will never abandon us, even if its feels like people around us are. Although my argument here would be to never put labels on people, never define them by those labels, as too they have their own tapestry that are still forming and taking shape. 

Yes the Lord might ask us to leave something or someone as He twists and turns the fibers in our lives, our good times and our hard times, all leading to this beautiful masterpiece. 

This weekend I feel like I have been standing on the sideline watching peoples reactions knowing that within I feel change just the same as them. Possibly not to the same news, yet lets be honest we all experience change everyday of our lives. 

There is something different about some people to I though, something that is so deep making my first turn not one of anger, of feeling limitless or holding some illusion all will be back to status quo. 

I guess I have a few truths that carry me, that whenever I sense that unease reality that one day, I will take that blank thread and weave it with the Lords help into something colorful - it will be just that, Lords weaving magic that carries me. 

We may not know our futures, yet the Lord is already there! He goes before us always, giving a sense of deep peace-giving truth. There will be so much joy, laughter and greatness there just as much as the Lord has brought to the seasons already experienced. 

Another truth I hold dear, was a lesson a dear friend taught me, that I forever am reminded of in times need, the Lord is more interested in the process than the destination!!! Apart of me craves security, a sense of everything will be okay, Lord will take care of not just me yet all my loved ones! A big thing is that I may never know where I will land, nor what anything looks like; regardless of the destination the Lord can use the process of getting 'there' to make me more like His Son if I let Him. 

The final truth that is a very hard lesson to embrace at times, is that unwelcome change leads to one thing only - utterly dependences on the Lord. This is precisely where the Lord wants us. We can grieve at what got us to this moment, yet being in a place of utter dependence of the Lord is a true gift given. 

It's where we can see the Lord more clearly, hear more distinctly, smell more intensely and yet we might not be able to change any circumstances, there is change in the seeing of the circumstances. 

Forever there will be holes in our hearts, pieces of our hearts we give to others who come into our lives. Change is hard at times; Oh how the Lord bless us in the wonder of waiting. Opens our eyes to see under things, feel presence, stand on His promises and move in His sacred love. The melody that floats around with the heart trying and believing in the strength of the song it sings. The new door opening up like a gift that is unwrapped, direct from the Lord leaving this peace of acceptance and embrace the changes together with grace leads only to one thing, true happiness and over flowing joy of reunion or shining Christ light. 

This is my nieces butterfly, it was a caterpillar she kept feeling swap plant then one day she went out into the garden to witness the last of the magical rebirth. She was so very excited.