Making Changes

Sometimes it is easy to feel like we are being wrapped in the things of the world. Much like these trees are wrapped in moss, But we can over come all of them and make Changes in our lives that free us from those things that are hindering to us. When we are all making changes it is easy to continue to move forward instead of staying stationary in one place. In one of my favorite Poems it tells us why we have to have all the hard things and how we can become because of them.

“The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil to live,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
“Good timber does not grow at ease,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, in rain and snow,
in trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold council with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.”
—Author unknown

Changes make us better they make us stronger 

How can we become the Change we want to see? 

What we BECOME

Easter, the time of the Easter bunny hopping his way though houses leaving candy and presents for everyone to enjoy. But what is the real meaning of Easter for Each of us? Why do we really celebrate the holiday. Much like Christmas it is because we are Celebrating the life of Jesus Christ. But at this time of year we are celebrating not only his life but his Death and More importantly His RESURRECTION!

We know that today our savior lives, he knows each of us, and because he died for each of us we to can overcome death, we can be perfected through him. We can GROW,  we can LEARN, we can CHANGE,  and BECOME something New something better than we are and something more that we ever thought we could be.

Our Savior didn't die for nothing he died for each and everyone of us. Because he knew that with out him we wouldn't be able to become much of anything, we would be stuck, stuck in a place where we wouldn't be able to do much of anything. When we felt sad we would feel no hope, see no light at the end of the tunnel, when we got upset and said things that we wish we could take back we would feel like there was no hope of forgiveness. Because of Jesus Christ we can over come all of this. We can Feel the Hope that comes because he came for each of us.

What does it mean to you to know that Someone loves you so much that he wants you happiness and he puts that first in everything he did, That your happiness is the reason he came?

In this season of Celebrating, I encourage each of you to show him how thankful you are for his sacrifice by letting it work within you.

What are Some things that you have been able to BECOME because of him? What will you start today knowing that you cannot fail?