{"id":10923,"date":"2019-09-06T05:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2019-09-06T05:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:42:06","slug":"our-master-planned-changeable-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10923","title":{"rendered":"Our Master-Planned, Changeable Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m seeing commercials and promos that talk about pumpkin spice candles and coffee, falling in love with fall and promos about the exciting new fall clothes colors. It hit me. Fall has literally sprung up on us. School is back in session and college teams’ fans are out in numbers as they sport their favorite team shirts and colors. Soon the leaves will be changing colors. I\u2019ve changed out some of my summer wardrobe for my fall\/winter ones \u2013 even though we\u2019re still having scorching hot summer days. I also took down my spring\/fall home d\u00e9cor. Bring on fall — my favorite time of the year! I’m ready for change!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get amused at the FB posts bearing photos of their little ones and mamas crying out to their children: \u201cStop growing so fast. Don\u2019t get any older!\u201d I know they really don\u2019t mean those words because how awful would it be for our children to stop growing and not getting older but staying as their little baby selves! But I get those mamas, because they are witnessing \u201ctime flying\u201d right before their eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Ecclesiastes 3:1, King Solomon wrote, \u201cThere is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season.\u201d Many of us would be much more comfortable if everything stayed the same; yet it doesn\u2019t. Everything has its seasons. Though we may like the seasons changing in nature, we may get frightened about the seasons changing in our lives. We grip so tightly to the present that it becomes traumatic when things change. Change can be difficult, but not so if we know God\u2019s divine purposes are being fulfilled. God does have a purpose and a season for everything and right now each of us is in one of His seasons. It\u2019s not about the seasons changing. It’s about seeing God in the seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master Planned Communities are everywhere. The developer master-plans a clubhouse, pool, the number of homes, streets, curbs and amenities. I live in one like that. Well, we have the Master Developer and Planner\u2026who is perfectly Master-planning our lives, the seasons we go through. He plans them with our ultimate success in mind. Isn’t it time we relax and enjoy each season of our lives\u2026..both in the climate, and in the transitions we go through? And, for goodness sake, mamas and papas, STOP wishing your babies to stop growing. It\u2019s a part of the Master\u2019s Plan to grow them into strong, self-sufficient and God-sufficient human beings that will change our world for good. Trust the Man with The Plan for your good! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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