Winds of Change: A Piece of my Testimony

I need to move more often. My room hasn't been this clean since we moved into this house almost 5 years ago.

I've said it before, but I'm a creature of change. As much as it scares me and sometimes I don't want to do it. I need it, I thrive on it, and I get restless when I don't have it.

I'm not yet sure why God created me this way, but I'm so glad He did.

If I didn't have change so frequently, I wouldn't have so many ministry blessings, like my middle schoolers, or the title of Miss Tyner, or Maryville.

If I didn't have change I wouldn't have gotten to know the most amazing God so intimately.

It was the change from elementary school to middle school when I figured out that God is real.

It was in the transition from middle school to high school when I realized the importance and the joy that is reading the Bible daily.

It was the change of relationships all throughout high school that God showed me that He is my constant, and the only friend that I can't live without.

And it has been this year of change (2011) that I'm confidently coming into my identity in Christ and what that means for my past, present, and future. I'm learning how to live a life of righteousness and praise and what faith and grace truly mean.

I can't live without change. I never want to become complacent. I never want to feel "comfortable" because that's when I become ignorant, selfish, and lazy. And I hate that feeling whenever I look back at it.

I've always always dreamed of accomplishing something beyond great with my life. And I can't be a worthy vessel unless I am pliable surrendered to the constant molding of my Potter.