What To Do When Change Comes

I have not written a post in a few months, honestly I haven't written much of anything besides my desperate, vulnerable prayers to the Lord. I have gone to sit down and type something to inspire and motivate you multiple times, but I just feel like I haven't had much to say. I feel the pressure of the expectation I put on myself to write once a month, to produce, to keep pushing towards my writing goals and dreams. But that's not been possible lately, and that's just not the season I have been in, maybe you can relate. Things have just felt so foggy, so full, so flipped in a direction I never thought my life would go or dream it would go that I am left with a lot of thoughts but not many words to string together. I think that's what happens when CHANGE has come. There is that word, it makes some of you cringe, or maybe it makes you excited, it makes you worry, it makes you doubt. The what, when, where, why, and how? All of those questions come rather quickly after the news of change, and then you're left trying to answer those questions from a very small view point of your own life.  A zoomed in view so to say, instead of the zoomed out view that the Father has.

I read recently that change is the only constant we really have in our lives, and isn't that the truth. Sometimes the change comes suddenly and other times it comes so gradually that you don't notice till a few weeks or months later, but change is always coming, change will always happen. The question isn't (the 4 W's and the H for my grammar friends); the true question is how will I handle the change when it comes. 

Change can be positive or negative, big or small, but it leaves us all searching for something to ground us. Looking for a bit of normalcy and rhythm till we can wrap our minds around our new reality. As I have navigated the change in my life that has unfolded the past two months, I have done some things right and some things wrong. And I will say, the change coming for my family and myself is amazing. It's good, it's Godly, it's some of my dreams coming true and some dreams I didn't even know I had being gifted to me by the grace of God! It's remarkable really. I am humbled. But what I am learning is that as we step out in faith, say yes to God, and He allows the winds of change to come, it by no means, means we will know every step we are taking. It actually feels like a giant trust fall with Him, like we are wearing a blindfold and running listening for His voice and just following that. 

So, if you are here, reading this and you are in a season of change, I want to simply remind you of Truths from the Father that He has for you His daughter. Again, I don't have many words, or poetic sentences for you today. But what I have is my real, raw self that is working through this beautiful wild season of change clinging to the Word of God like it's the breath in my lungs, because it truly is. And I have tasted and I have seen that the Lord is good, and I long for you to taste too. 

1. God is not a God of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33) - Rather He is the God of Peace. Order, structure and thought out plans is the nature of God. Look at Creation, the order and detail, so pristine. Your life might feel confusing, but the Author is not confused. Not for a second has He been and will He be. Let your mind settle on that truth.
2. Confirmation often Comes After You Step Out (Genesis 12, Abraham's story)- A very wise woman said this to me, and she was right, very right. Often God will open a door of change for you, and you peek your head in and hope that before you take that step you can see the confirmation. That big flashing neon sign that says THIS WAY!! But, God wants you to step out in FAITH, FULLY Trusting Him, not what you can see. Hope is the song of Heaven and Faith is the melody to lead you there. If God is saying Go, or do, or give, say YES, and watch the confirmation come. 
3. Instead of Worrying ABOUT it, Pray INTO it (1 Peter 5:7) - When change comes and we are staring at it dead in the face filled with unknowns and giant question marks we have a choice. Do I worry about every single piece I can't see or know? Which will lead us to sleepless nights, anxiety attacks, physical health problems, moodiness, apathy, stress, biting nails and unhealthy coping. Or do we do the most powerful action we can do and pray into it. Do we believe that prayer is the most powerful tool we have? And do we live out our prayer life as if it can really move a mountain. When you pray into your future, your season of change that is coming, you are inviting the One who made the world who thinks the world of you into your every circumstance and decision. Think about that. You are asking Him to blow fresh wind, fire, His favor over every detail. When you do this, when you choose to be still and KNOW He is God, worrying leaves when warring in prayer begins.​

What if we walked through seasons of change not entertaining the question, "What if it doesn't work out?" But instead believe with faith bursting in our hearts, "What if it does?" I smile as I type that. It's risky, it's bold, but beautifully surrendered to the King of Heaven. I'm going for it. 

Much Love, 
​    Heather