New

"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."

~Isaiah 43:19

God likes to make things new.  He loves taking what was once wrong and making it right again.  This is the Gospel.  This is the Bible.

The hardest part for me is letting the old go, of releasing it.  Perhaps some of it is fear.  Fear that I won't know what to do when I have the new.  Fear that somehow people won't like me as this new person.  Other times, it's the control.  With my old, I had, (or so I thought), control over my life.  I was comfortable.  When new comes, often, at first, things are out of control.  Reality has shifted and now what do I do.

He HAS begun something new in me.  In my family.  Something new with my wife and something new with my children.  Is it bad?  Absolutely not.  In fact, it is the BEST thing that has ever happened to all of us...even if some don't see it yet.  Is it uncomfortable? Yes.  Is it new territory that we don't exactly know how to navigate yet? Yes.

Here's the great news!  We aren't alone.  God has designed and carved out those rivers in the dry wasteland.  HE is there.  HE is here.  In the thick of it, helping us.  And, it IS, it WILL be awesome!!!

I hope wherever you are at in life that you can see that the new thing He is doing is part of His plan and there is nothing to fear.  He's got you!

Dean