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The Book of Esther: A story about God still being present even if it seems He’s not.

Chapter 1: 1-22

The story begins with a king named Xerxes, a rich who throws a party for 180 days. Xerxes had so much wealth he showed it off to every one. He was like Ted Turner however Xerxes had more power.  He also wanted show his great importance and splendor to everyone in the kingdom. Now after these 180s day he wanted one more party for 7 days.

Now on the 7^th day of this party Xerxes got wasted. Like most kings he got whatever he wanted because if it didn’t happen you were going to die. Now Xerxes wanted the world to see his smoking queen. A queen named Vashti. Now Vashti seems to me as a woman of independence. She is the miss independent Kelly Clarkson and Destiny Child was talking about. However she decides not to come. Now there are many speculations on why she is in the story, but no one really knows. However I have nothing but respect her, she was no trophy wife, which is pretty impressive considering she was considered property back then.

Well like any guy with a smoking wife and had everything he ever wanted he had a cow when his queen decided to disobey him. He also began to worry about whatever else was going to think. He was worried about all the women on how they were now are going to disrespect him and how he will have a rebellion on his hand. Let’s be honest when women get upset at you don’t want to be around.

So to solve this problem he decides to make it so she can never be in his presence, which I think personally is a great move. Secondly he also made it so every wife must respect their man no matter what level they were at either rich or poor you have to respect your husband.  Xerxes and his crew pretty much excited about that and celebrated and that’s how chapter 1 ends.

First of all that is a way to start out a book, by having a giant party, getting wasted, and making every woman mad, however making it all that they have to respect you. Now to be honest we can cop out and say there is not a lot to be taken from this part of story but I would then tell you being just like the Xerxes and finding and easy way out.

The story is supposed to be about God’s people the Israelites and there not even in the beginning of the story. That’s usually an important part of the story. However I think the writer wants to point out a few things to us. One to gives us some idea what’s going on and giving you back story of how God orchestrates things. Side note if you read the whole book of Esther you will notice God is not mention once. I think when we first read we think this about Xerxes, “Wow, this guy has it all, nothing to worry about, and besides God not being happy most likely he’s living a good life.”

Now first of all we know God is in control, secondly we are going to learn from other characters having other priorities than God’s will hurt us in the end. I know I struggle sometimes of finding my priorities. Now we know the Kings priorities which is to impress people, show them that he’s awesome, and that he is the greatest King ever. I mean when you have 180 day part that means your not working or doing your job for almost half the year.

So I want to first ask you what your priorities are. Who are you trying to impress? It’s easy to say Jesus and Jesus, but really sit with it. Who are you are trying to impress? Is it that girl you work with? Is it that co-worker that thinks you’re an idiot? Maybe your parents because they thought you wouldn’t amount to anything?  And are they in the right places. But why do we try impress Christ? Is it so we can be consider higher and look better in front of people. Or are we doing for selfish reason? Do we maybe even forget that God is there watching…just like in this beginning of this book…

Second thing we can learn is that we should not try to force our own way. Xerxes portrays the very essence of humanity. Xerxes shows selfishness, desired to be loved by people for all the reasons, throws temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, makes it so he can have his own way. We too live in this environment and we sometimes don’t see God especially when these mega-rich people lead these selfish lives.

What to do? What to do?

Well for me, I need to be aware on what’s going on around me. I need to find ways I can serve people, make it habit of it. I need to be reminded that God is there, I needed to look for ways where I am not selfish. I need not look for opportunies for me to take the lime light and be loved by everyone. I need not to be funny all the time and try to grab attention. What situations do you go in when you want people to look at you or you want to impress them?

For the record there is nothing wrong doing something well…its why you choose to do it well is it because you want God to get glory or do you want the glory because I know love the glory from people… I am just saying…

Secondly we must realize this life is not all about me. As hard as that maybe we must really live this way. It means serving, it means maybe giving up things you would normally get, such as instead of spending $10 on a movie, maybe you go to San Francisco to give food and listen to man story. It could be helping a neighbor out with the lawn. We are given tons of opportunities to help people. I challenge you for one day to count the amount of opportunities you had to help whether you did help or not.

Lastly I must say by doing this, this will not get you saved, its part of our calling like James talks about, we can never do enough to repay Christ. Our salvation is a free gift like Paul talks about in Galatians. This however will help give us insight to what it truly means to be like Christ. By doing this I think we will stop forgetting about God and we will visibly see God on the move like he’s about to do this story.

We all like to have our occasion laziness spell. Is it bad? I think depends. If you have been working really hard all week and you need a day off then yes its okay to be lazy. If you being playing video games all week and go to bed at midnight and wake up at noon. I think that a bad lazy.  What happens when we come across a situation where we are forced to choose to say or do something right? Do we choose the laziness route or do we take the path and get up.

I was in the coffee shop early today just hanging with my good friend/co-worker and a student sat in between where the cash registers were. I thought in my head I should tell her to get down because it’s not a good idea for them to sit up there. Plus it doesn’t look very professional for business. However being lazy and tired I decided I wasn’t going to say anything. Well a couple minutes later our boss comes in and looks at the student sitting on the counter and says you need to get down from there. A few moments later the boss comes in, after the students had scurried away, the boss gives me and my friend a lecture how this a professional business and we need to not have these things. It was one of those speeches you hear from your parents when there disappointed in you.

My initial reactions at first was if we were a professional business then there a lot for us to do because we are sub-par on a lot of levels, I was also thinking why in the world are you accusing me I am not even on the clock right now.  I got super defensive, then I realized wait…this is not what Christ would want. My boss has every right to lecture us, because I did get lazy and decided not to do the right thing. Now doing the right thing and thinking the right thing are two different thing is not good enough.

I think sometimes we get lazy at the wrong times in life, in fact I say being lazy and sloth is a sin in some degrees. The Lord wants us to rest; now resting may look like taking a nap, watching a movie with a friend, or going to the coffee shop to people watch. However we need to strive for righteous at all times, not for us to look perfect in the boss eyes, but because we love our Lord. In the book of John, Christ makes statement he says, if you love me, you will obey me. If we are truly about being followers of Christ we are going to take this statement to heart and do what He asks of us. I encourage you; my friends do not ride the lazy river when it comes to doing what is right.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? I think we all do at some point whether its finals with school, or projects from work, or the a major decision about relationship. Sometimes these feeling can paralyze us or make us feel inadequate. Today this very feeling rocked me to the core and frustrated me to no end. I was at Cornerstone Fellowship today and I ran into some student who were not attending the church service or the high school service and asked them why and they really didn’t give me a reason and they were okay with that. I am began talking with one my mentors and told him about the situation. He said, “Wes, you can’t do everything.”

I know he was right and then I was reminded of this story, in the book of Matthew. Jesus had just finished healing a blind and mute man. He than began to teach in the synagogues and he looked out to the crowd. The bible said he had compassion on them for they were like sheep without a shepherd. He then told his disciples the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, so pray that the Lord will send workers.

I am so reminded that I am not in control of what people do and that I am in inadequate because I am human.  However I have an opportunity every day to minister to people and be a light. I have an opportunity to talk to people about joining ministry. Most importantly I get a chance to prayer to God and tell him that we need more workers. The ironic thing is He already knows. However we need to grow in faith and we need to pray to him. For this generation needs to be reach, nay all generations need to be reach for the gospel. I know I can’t do it all by myself but I think if I pray, I know the Lord will bring people, so if your reading this and your not plugged in the church, please ask God where he wants you because harvest is plentiful and the workers are few.

A movie with blue people and a lot of CGI effects really didn’t interest me at first, however after hearing more reviews of Avatar, I became more interested. My Uncle took my brother Dustin and I to see Avatar. (Its our yearly Christmas tradition). The CGI effects were incredible! I got lost in the movie and really didn’t think about computer world James Cameron had created. The story line was pretty predictable but nonetheless you get caught up in the world. I don’t want to ruin it for anybody but in the end I thought it was a good story of hope and redemption.

The first part of the year turned out to be one of best of my life. My best friend Evan and I roomed together, the girl I had been pursing wanted to become official, the dorm life was awesome, I was going to school three days a week, and to top off all I was graduating college. I was also in the running for a High School Pastor position.

After I received a diploma of Graduating Multnomah University, it seemed as though the storm had come into my life. It feels as though I am at the tail end of the storm. The summer of 2009 was the hardest summer of my life. I couldn’t find a job, I broke up with my girlfriend, and I got lost in trying to find my identity in who I was, I moved home unplanned, a lot of my friends lives changed, and I lost my community and family in Portland.

Now many of you may have faced worst troubles than I have but for me this was hard.  However through it all God has been faithful and he has given me hope. I recently have gotten a newer perspective on life and been reminded by a story of hope.

Though many things haven’t gone my way is last few months I know its part of the plan and I need to rejoice and be grateful for where I am at in life. I personally have much joy in my life just because I realize where I am at and how blessed I am to be in this position in life.

I get to be home with family, I got to reconnect with some old friends, I made some new ones along the way, daily I am finding my place as child of God, I get to work at a coffee shop with great people, I get free dental (very important due to the fact I had a root canal and five cavities) and health insurance, I get to go anywhere I want, my friend Kyle got married, and I got to see some of my closest friends in Portland recently. I also got to rejoice the birth of Christ with family.

Life happens and sometimes you just got to roll with it. There are good things and bad things in life. A person must take the hope they have in Christ and focus on that because if they don’t well life is going to be miserable. I have hope in Jesus so I feel as though my life is great. Life can either be seen in two lights half full or half empty how are going to look at it?

Hanna and Kyle Higginbotham. It was a beautiful wedding in Jerfferson, OR and I am so happy for my friends!

I often catch myself watching the lives of celebrities. The latest celebrity life I have been looking at is life of Tiger Woods. He just recently got in a car accident. Now there are all kinds of wonderment of what Tiger Woods was doing at 2:30 am. On Sunday, he put it out a statement saying it was a private matter and he was embarrassed of the situation. Now is it the end for him and his family? Most likely not, he will go through more and more question until he answers the question or or sadly enough another celebrity does something stupid and media will focus their attention on them. Now I say this because growing up I idolize people that were famous movie stars, sports athletes, or music artists. Now I wonder to myself, why I did do this?

I came up with a few reasons. One of the reasons is that I thought they were cool or I aspired to become them. For example, I played because as a kid and one my favorite athletes were Jason Kidd. I tried my best to play like Jason Kidd. He was such a good passer. He had great vision of the court and overall a really good player.

Sometimes I want to be these people because they were cool and I thought it could help me get the ladies. I went through a brief phase of where I was in a boy band that lipped sync. It was a dark time and it is tough to admit this to world but I feel better about it now. When I was fifteen I went to a place called Spirit West Coast, it’s kind of like a Christian Woodstock. Anyways there was a boy band performing name Plus One. I saw them and I said to my four buddies we are going to do this and become famous and be on that stage five years from now. Needless to say that didn’t happen however we did perform twice. The first time was at a high school group lock in. At that lock in some girl was pretty impressed by me and my sweet moves. We pretty much spent the whole night being high school students you know flirting, cuddling, and holding hands. It was pretty awesome, did I mention she was in tenth grade when I was freshman. WHAT UP! High-Five! Anyways the second time was Winter Camp Talent Show, I think was a senior, anyways it was pretty awesome and everyone loved it and I think we won.

We do things but why? Sometime we just like to perform. Other times it’s because we want to be known. We want to have significance; we want others to know who we are. We hate being left out and not included. And we grow up through life we begin to see our friends get in relationships. Then we begin to feel sometime lonely because all our friends have somebody and we don’t. Then you think by getting someone is going to solve this case. Now it will in one sense but however in reality you are known and loved already.

You are known by the God of this universe. The creator of the world knows you and loves you. Sit with that fact for a little bit…. I don’t think I can fully grasp this thought. Check out these scriptures.

God is speaking to his Prophet Jeremiah 1:5:

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the Nations.”

Contextually he speaking the prophet, however this concept of knowing us still apply to us.

David talks about in the Psalms as well: Psalm 139:13-16:

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

It amazes me, he not only knows us; He loves us. We were created by him and then we screwed it up in the garden. Then life was left to a law to follow, until God sent his Son to die for our sins. He did knowing that some people would reject him. He did this even when we were against him. Sin repels God, yet he still decided to save us. Romans 5:7-9

“Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!”

Now I understand life is tough. I haven’t lived through a whole of hard times; I do know what its like to not have a job, to break up with someone, and to not know my future. It can cause great stress in life and worry. I recently minded of these verses and I am trying to remember this very fact. Though I go through these hard times and sometimes I feel lonely God is still right there and he knows me and loves me. We all have this desire and God can fulfill this desire. It’s not an easy idea to work through but once you work through and remind yourself of it constantly your day will be filled with joy. I am going to do best to live this life. I encourage you to do the same.

This is Justin Fitch from Justin Fitch and the High-Fives.

I remember as a young child that I always knew what time it was. I never needed a watch, there was just something in me that allowed to me have a sense of time, whether it be the actual time or if there was a certain amount of time passed. Even to this day I pretty accurate at the time. I would drive from Portland, OR to Pleasanton, CA I knew it was going to be a long trip. When I would drive would try to cover up the car’s clock and try not to think about how many songs I had listened to or the look at the rode markers. Because I always knew the amount of time I had spent in the car.  I would do my very best try to ignore it so that I could get home or back to school without draining myself on the drive. It was difficult sometimes to hide the amount time just because I knew the area all so well. Like going up to Portland, OR I knew once I hit Medford, OR I had about four and half hours left.  As I continue to drive their was this town called Jefferson, OR I have some friends from that area and knew it was about an hour out of Portland. Coming home I knew after I past Redding I it was going to be long boring drive because there is nothing to look at. Eventually I would see exit 23 to Glisan St to get to school and eventually I would see Santa Rita Exit and I knew I had made it home. A sense of relief would always hit my body after I reach the home area.

Now in life we see time differently sometimes, we see it in a light of waiting or we see time as a enemy. We never say that was just the right amount of time. After you get done with a vacation a persons usually thinks to themselves, I could had a few extra days or when the weekends hit you say man that went by so fast. We never associate perfection and time. It’s always too soon or too late. It’s never perfect. However in all reality time is perfect we just don’t see it.

There was a young women had been sick her whole life. She couldn’t do much and no one really wanted to associate with her. She would do her best and go to synagogue as much as she could and was hoping for a healing of her body but time and time again, nothing happen. One day she heard that this teacher was coming to town, she heard that he could heal anyone. She even heard that this man was the Messiah. So she got ready that day. She thought to herself, if I only get close enough to touch his clock I will be healed. Later that day he had arrived and she did her best to bob and weave through the crowd. This teacher had a whole entourage of people with him, it seem as though he was a rock star.  However eventually she got close of enough and with her right had she touch him. Then he turned around and told, “Daughter you have been made well because of your faith”

Now there is more to this story than just her touch him, the story is about faith. It’s about timing she had to wait 12 years before she was healed. There countless stories where God’s timing doesn’t come until it is needed. We sometimes get wrapped up in the idea we deserve it this time. We gain a sense of entitlement to things. In truth and all reality we don’t deserve anything but death.

You hear this cliché all the time; God speaks about having perfect time in our lives. Every time I hear I cringe a little but know that this is a true fact. We must take faith in the fact God does have time for us. Solomon talks about there being a time for everything. We must also see it this way. It tough to wait especially if your not where you thought you would be in your life. For me I had no idea that I would be a barista at a church and working with College and High School students. It hasn’t been the easiest time in my life but it’s been a good time. I am blessed to have such good family and friends to make this time a little bit easier. Things will happen in time, I just need to learn to wait.

This is my buddy’s band Jaymes Reunion minus the bass player  check them out. They are Legit!

I am sitting in Peets thinking. ( I know a scary thought) I have been trying to rack my brain to think of something creative to talk about. I keep rolling the dice and nothing comes up. Finally I just decided to type and then I look at the screen and though to myself I am thankful that God has given me a place to live, place to sit, and place to think. I am thankful.

These last couple of days has been interesting. I have been pondering about God and what the purpose of humans. I thought about faith and works and what the balance of it all was. I was thinking about the students that I need to reach out to but I feel it’s difficult to reach out to them because I don’t make the time for them or my schedule doesn’t allow it to happen.  My brain has been so distracted about everything else but the Praise God.

Praising God and talking to him is important. I was talking to a friend the other day. They said it’s hard for me to pray with a strict agenda, I feel as though I pray better when I am just walking around and walking through life. I fully agreed. I think of prayer more so hanging out with a friend. I have gotten to talk to some friends on the phone recently which has been super good. I am grateful that cell phones exist. As of lately I dislike the fact texting exists. The reasoning for this is because I think hearing a voice is much better that reading some words on a screen.

However I am always grateful and thankful that I do receive words on a screen. Thankfulness needs to come through our hearts and in all aspects of our lives. We need to have a thankful heart. I am super thankful for my friends, family, pastors, and leaders. These people have played major roles in my life and taught me many lessons.

When we come to a place of thankfulness, our lives will be in a better place. We will have a more positive outlook in life and our Focus on God will be more positive.  There was a guy at the Warriors game I recently went to where he was always complaining about the Warriors. He said they weren’t playing good enough defense, they were shooting terrible shots, they were making stupid mistake, and everything that came out of his mouth was negative. The Warriors ended up winning 146 to 105. If we become ungrateful for the things we go through life or we focus on every little mistake we are going to miss out on a good game. We are going to miss out on the great things God has in store for us. So I encourage you today to say thank one to someone and Thank God for them.

(This photo was taken my last night in Portland. Miss you friends and Thankful to have you in my life) 

How many times are we selfish in a day? Once, twice, or three times? Probably a lot more. I realized today, that I am more selfish than I am selfless. Now of course I have my good days, but lately I have notice my selfish attitude. I think one of the hardest things is to recognize and admit to ourselves the sins we commit. For me it’s my sinning has been my selfish attitude.

A couple of days ago I was working at Parchments and their some ladies helping out with the High School group. They were cleaning the kitchen and preparing the meal for the students’ big Thanksgiving party (which looked amazing). Anyways I needed to clean some dish so we could close Parchments. I ended waiting probably an extra 5 to 10 minutes to start cleaning but during that time I decided to be a tool and whine about how this lady was taking up the kitchen cleaning her stuff. Here is the twist after I started to wash dishes the same lady decided to help clean the rest of the dishes for me.

Now yesterday, I redeemed myself a little bit. So my grandfather had thyroid cancer and he had his surgery. Yesterday a bunch of us were going to play basketball. Well I realize that I needed to visit my grandfather before I started work later that day. So at first I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get to play basketball. In the car I had this inner battle, knowing the right thing to do is visit my grandfather while at the same time I really want to play basketball.  Finally I reach my destination by the time I got there I realized that my heart had been wrong place the last couple of days. I went up to see my grandfather lying their resting. My grandma told me everything we fine and he perfect well he just needs to rest. I couldn’t be that I even contemplated basketball and seeing my grandfather on the same page. Even having the thought of contemplating between basketball and seeing my grandfather was one stupid thing I could think of. When I saw him I was grateful that I did, and my grandfather is doing well and just recovering. He is doing well and resting.

The truth of the matter is that a sign of true growth is when our reaction time to difficult situation or when we have a choice to be selfish or selfless is change immediately rather than have a difficult inner battle.  I do believe that the more mature we get the better we are able to control and make change. However it only happens if our relationship with Christ grows. When that grows I believe each area of life will change. Christ was the ultimate selfless character; we see a beautiful hymn written by Paul in Philippians 2:5-11.

“⁵Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
⁶Who, being in very nature^[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
⁷but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
⁸And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
⁹Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. “

Christ left perfection to live on earth for 33 years, and then died for something that he didn’t do. He didn’t for all for us and brought glory to God the Father.

I got a long way to got but I am learning and I encourage you to learn and grow. Take each situation you face and see through the eyes of Christ. Also if you fail, don’t beat yourself up, make the change, and look to Spirit for power and help.

This is Evan Reedall. He is a selfless man of God. This photo was taken in Tacoma, WA during a friend Wedding.

Every story has a beginning, middle, and an end. There are protagonist, antagonist, settings and plots. (Sometimes too many plots) There is conflict and solution.  Our lives are basically a story we have a beginning (baby-graduating college), middle (Career-Retirement, depending on what you do), and an end (Retirement-Eternity depending on what you believe). There are protagonist such as God, Christ, best friends, girlfriends, and parents. There are antagonist such as devil, enemy friends/rivals, ex-girlfriends, parents and even yourself. The settings are all determined where you grow up some in CA other NY, some Bakersfield, CA. The plots now are the most interesting that can range from going to middle school feeling awkward every single day of your life to breaking up with a girlfriend, from getting your first job to being laid off, to falling in love to finding that marriage is not always easy. Then when you’re retired in life you realize that you could have done more and you’re trying to figure out what’s next in life. (sounds alike when you get out of college). The plot is what drives the story to go forward. The conflict we face allows us to a person rise as the hero and make it a comedic end (Not funny but a happy) or we fall into despair and make our lives into a tragedy in the end. The plot of the story, where it’s going is unknown. The protagonist and antagonist are usually clearly seen. However their something the character goes through and it’s the character purpose. However in the end we find out what that is at the end of our lives. However the real question is how is it going to end and what is the purpose of the end?

This morning I was reading from 1 Thess. 4:13-5:11 it speaks about the time when Christ will come in a thief in the night and takes us up with him. This is the end and many Christian get stuck and loves to discuss this theology we can call Eschatology.  (The theological notions of the End Times)  We actually know the ending of our own story if you’re a believer of Christ. However we usually don’t act as though we know this fact, and when we realize we know this fact we act in a different way.

I think one of the reason is people and myself want to know how long we have, some want to know how much time do have to find a husband or wife, some want to know how much time they have to be with their grandchildren, some want to know how much time they have so they can decide when it’s okay to go for their dream job. Now these are not bad things within themselves, however the mentality of “How much time do I have to…” that’s the problem, that’s the issue.

We need to realize a couple of things of knowing the End. First the reason Paul let us know that a “END” is coming is so we are given urgency to save the lost, we are made aware in order for us to realize we need to be like Christ around everyone. We need to make sure our testimony (how we live) in this life will be a testimony that reflects the actions and attitudes of Christ.

The second thing we need to realize is that we don’t need to wait to star our dreams. God has given us talents, gifts, dreams, and passions. We need to strive to live out using all our gifts and talents. We can not allow fear to effect what we do. God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2 Tim 1:7) We need to takes those dreams and make them reality. Now sometimes what we think is our dream is really not it but I think through going four our dream will direct us to path that will resemble what God wants for us.

“THE END” will happen when it supposed to happen; Paul says it will come in like a thief in the night. For me and you we need not to worry if our hope is Christ. However we can’t allow our fear to overcomes us and stop us from achieving our dreams.

This was taken during my Senior Retreat at Multnomah at Gearheart.

I remember the first time I tried to drive a manual car it was one of the scariest things ever. My dad was trying to teach me, I am not the greatest driver but I pretty good. I remember we were going around one more time around the block and there was this turkey vulture just chilling in the middle of the road. Well we stop at the stop sign and as I slow down the turkey began to circles us and stalked us as if we his prey. Now the turkey vulture was vicious and very ugly and I started to freak so I slowly started to shift from 1^st to 2^nd. The turkey vulture also decided to shift 1^st to 2^nd and he started to follow us like a crazy bird. I decided to shift to third and we eventually got away because I shifted into third.

 

I wish I could change that quickly. Adjusting to change might be one of the most difficult things a person may encounter in life. The funny thing is that is always happens and you and I do our very best to avoid it. It’s like getting old its going to happen. For me it’s been a struggle to deal with change but I receive it with open arms.

 

Now I must learn how to adapt to the change and not missed out on this opportunity to change. I ask myself why must I change, then I realize change is just an opportunity to grow. As a believer I must grow in order to mature. Now growth is important and we must discover where we need growth in. I say we need grow in everything we face. How we react to the change will be the key to our growth.

Change is tough to deal with but if we make right moves it help us live a better life not only for us but for others.  For we are to be transformed by God and one of the ways he transformers us is by throwing change into our life. The change can gives us hope if we look at it with right perspective.

 

So next time you get a quarter, nickel, dime or penny know that your going to have face change sooner or later

I used to live in Portland, OR.  Now I live Pleasanton, CA. That was my big Change