"Times They Are A-Changin'"

“There’s too much change happening!” she said with an air of resistance as I debated out loud new colors and moving old things. After 23 years in our home, I’m going for some big changes. Tearing out counters, painting cabinets, bringing in more light. Our space has been warm and comfortable and has served us. But it’s begun to feel heavy and dark. I need to lighten things up! With that comes rearranging ~ moving memories from where they’ve been for years to settle in other rooms where they can be treasured or seen in a different light. And some objects, well, they just need to go because they are no longer useful. 

Life changes. They happen with or without me. So I get to choose. I can move into them clinging to memories and accumulations that are no longer useful and hunker down in comfortable spaces and ways of being. Because, you know, embracing change feels unsettling. Change is filled with unknowns and certainly requires letting go. But, change also bears excitement and anticipation. So I can choose to acknowledge what I am afraid of losing. Is it actually useful? Will it be of benefit to pass along to others? Does this [thing, habit, memory] help me become more of my better self, or keep me stuck in a romanticized era? I can grieve what I am letting go, realizing it opens my hands to creating something new.

Change can be intimidating. I’ve drug my feet and gone back’n’forth in hesitation. But, I’m also filled with anticipation to re-create. Because to reevaluate my living space and bring in the Light is not just for me. It’s a living space to share light and love and the energy of something new so others can welcome the possibilities of change too.

See, I am making all things new.
Revelation 21:5

Bob Dylan knew Times They Are A-Changin’ back in 1964. They are a changin’ still…let go, or hold on? 

In this together…