The Summer of Transitions...


This summer is one that I will always stick out to me as a time of growth and of a lot of change. As I am entering my Senior year of high school, I start the semester off having no idea about where I will end up after high school. I also have a brand new youth pastor, an engaged friend going off to college, and an older brother who now comes home less and less. While all these things are great and should happen, it still has caused a roller coaster of emotions.

The other night I was lying in bed thinking about how I was going to handle all these changes, how I was going to be able to get through Senior year without some of the people who have spoken so much into my life these past three years. During all this, I had a song going through my head, "On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand." It took me about 10 minutes to figure that God was trying to tell me to lean on him through this transition season. I had been looking to my close friends and family as my rock to help me through this tough season when I should have been leaning on the only One who can give me strength and assurance.

God must have wanted to continue showing me things late at night because a few days later I was pondering these things in bed again. Change has always been something that I have been able to adapt to, but this season of change has been one of the hardest. lying in bed I told myself that I needed to accept that it was happening. Tears were shed and through them, God reminded me that, while things on this earth are changing and are going to continue to change, He will never change. He is always constant and He is not going anywhere.

Through this transition phase, I will continue to lean on Christ as my source of hope and joy and I will continue to remind myself that,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday
and today and forever
Hebrews 13:8 ESV



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