Experiencing something new….

Have you ever traveled to a new place? Scored while playing a new sport? Walked a new hiking trail? Put on a new pair of beautiful shoes? What happened when you took that step….something CHANGED.Your perspective before the “new” became different after the experience….So what happens when the “new” isn’t welcome? What happens when the “new” isn’t what you thought it would be? I will use my life to represent…what happens when the 6th baby isn’t happy…at all…ALL the time? What happens when the oldest of 6 gets hurt…BAD…and goes through major surgery?

It’s still new.…it still shifts my perspective…it’s the CHANGE part that grounds down my soul at times. It’s precisely then, when I cannot see the good in the new. When my perspective only sees the negative in the experience….

then, finally…I sit back and look through the RIGHT lens….here’s what God says…..

Isaiah 43:19 “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”

I have to admit…I don’t see it.
The best part is this……HE doesn’t WAIT for me to see it…HE JUST DOES what He does so well.

He “makes a path through the wilderness…(of my heart, of my marriage, of my parenting, of my LIFE…)”

He creates RIVERS in the dry wasteland…(of my mind, of my soul, of my existence…)”

So when the change begins, when the new isn’t what I thought it would be, or what I thought it SHOULD be…I will let Him have his way….I will let Him do a NEW thing…He gave me His Word……”He has already begun”….