We were Subjected to Change and We did it!

No I didn’t. I sure amuse myself. I had this blog all set to go this morning. I even spoke about change in my blog yesterday. But, what do you know? I forgot about the time change, and here I am up an hour earlier because of it! Argh! Oh well, maybe I’ll get a little nap before going to church this morning!

Today we were subjected to change without even trying! This time change is a big one! You know summer is officially over when Daylight Saving Time comes. This is my favorite time change – the one that “falls back” and we get a much-needed extra hour of sleep. In my case, NOT! I spoke about change in my blog yesterday. Today we were subjected to change without even trying! This time change is a big one! You know summer is officially over when Daylight Saving Time comes. This is my favorite time change – the one that “falls back” and we get a much-needed extra hour of sleep. Typically, adults can adapt to this change quite easily. But, oh my goodness, I remember when my children and my grands were babies when these time changes came. It was a work-out to get them on the new schedule. They didn’t understand they could get an extra hour of sleep in the Fall.

But, these days, wise young moms and dads have learned to trick the time clock. They start regulating their children’s time schedules way before last night. They gradually moved bedtime and morning wake up time and nap times later by 10-15 minutes. By the time today came, those kiddos’ schedules are already tracking the new time. I love that. Rather than grumpy moms, dads and kids today, those smart-thinking moms and dads were forward thinking.

Speaking of changes…..my family has made multiple Texas location changes in just this 2021 year. I moved from Frisco to Austin. My Austin family sold their Wuerch Ranch, and are temporarily in Lakeview, TX until their new home in Cedar Park, TX is completed. They’ll be much closer to me. My Wallace crew (just this weekend) sold their Frisco home (in two days time, thanks to Payton, their son and real estate guru) and moved to Rusk, TX. Goodness gracious! Changes like these can be exhilarating with great anticipation for what the new can hold for us – like the beginning of a new year! Optimism says to “It’s going to be a great new year!” And, optimism and faith says: “This is going to be a great new day!” – every day!

It’s all about adapting to the changes. I witnessed so many positive stories of those who made the most of the radical changes we all had to make since the start of 2020! It was change like none other we had ever experienced. And, with God’s help – we are still making it. That’s easy for me to say as I made my way back home to Austin after helping my Frisco family pack and move to Rusk. But, yesterday, they had to unload it all. Today I’m greasing this young body’s joints! Oh me!

Changes are inevitable in our lives. Like this Daylight Savings Time change – it’s going to happen whether we want it to or not. Thanks to Benjamin Franklin for that! He proposed rising an hour earlier to conserve candles, but it didn’t take root until World War II when President Franklin D. Roosevelt started what he called “War Time” to save resources. Thanks, Ben and President Roosevelt!”

Being willing to embrace change has so many rewards. As I mentioned in my blog yesterday, I’ve become accustomed to changes (after living in 27 different homes in many different geographic places). I look back and see God’s providential hand in each change we made. Change in our lives is inevitable. We can hold change like the tight reins of a horse and resist it and refuse to submit to change, or we can shed that old stuck-in-the-mud thinking of “I’ve ALWAYS done it this way, and I’ll never change”. Or, we can embrace change and grow and learn and adapt and be ALL God destined us to be.

Maybe it’s time to rethink that new hairstyle, that downsizing and being done with home maintenance and move to a great new apartment community where the maintenance is taken care of, or taking that computer course to up your game, or finding a new circle of friends, or turning that same-oh-same-oh attitude of gloom, doom, and despair into positive, “I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me” and “I am more than a conqueror” attitude! Just maybe it’s time to get a new lease on life by being willing to CHANGE!

Psalm 25:1-2 “O LORD, I give my life to You. I trust in You, my God!”