Change is good....Embrace it today!

Its been a while since the last blog. Life gets crazy with 3 children and doesn't give me a lot of free time anymore, but its all apart of the many changes taking place in my life.

The word Change has been on my mind a lot lately. Change: To change the form, nature, content, future course of something that is left alone or different from what it is now. This is the definition of every aspect of my life right now. Everything is changing from our family dynamic, relationships with people we thought would be in our life forever, my health and physical appearance and the list could go on. When things are different from what they have always been like, it can really throw you for a loop. You can doubt yourself and what you believe and how you live your life to the point that you don't really know what way is up. Right now I have 2 choices I can make...1. Resist the change and fight with all my might to keep things like they are or were and pray to God that I can still function in his plans. Or 2. change with my situations and accept the fact that God has other plans for me, my family, friends and paths I thought I was going on. SO I choose number 2! I want to be in the perfect will of God for my life no matter the cost. And it has already cost a lot. No one would know but we have been through such a transition in our life that we are kinda in a tail spin right now and not sure what way is up. From Dave's mom, promises broken from his work that really hurt us financially, having Olivia, reconciling with the fact that not every person in our life will be our "true friends" and being at a complete stand still in ministry.

If you really know me, you know that I can not just sit still and not be involved in things. I love to volunteer and see what I am doing helps people. I use to be involved in pretty much everything at church from Worship ministry to nursery. At this present time I am not apart of a single thing. For a while it felt good to take a break, a step back and really see why I was doing what I was doing. For His glory or mine. And now I just feel like I have gifts and talents that are just going to waist. But I have this inward pull to just sit and wait. I don't wait well! Its all apart of "The Change" in the Sylvain house.

Change isn't a bad thing, just very uncomfortable and different. Children are the greatest example of change. Olivia has already changed in a month from her birth so much she almost isn't the same baby. Thats why the Lord says in Matthew 18:3, " I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." I think Jesus said this because children were made to adapt to change much better then adults. When you reach adulthood you make the decisions to change, try new things become friends with new people, move away etc. but when you are a child change is a normal, natural occurance and doesn't send any shock waves. I say all of this to say, I am ready for change! I will not miss out on what God has for me and my family. I will go with his flow and I will tread the waters till I know the things before me are from him and not apart of my own will. I will stop trying to make things work and hold onto past relationships and let the Lord take me to new and different places and people. And be happy and joyful that I have an amazing husband to come right along side me and cheer me on and change right along with me and behind us 3 great kids that are along for our ride through life together and behind them 2 amazing, wonderful friends that will be with all of us through thick and thin, weight loss and gain, joy and sorrow, life and death.

Change is good, embrace it today!