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Spring is time for new life.

3/21/2014

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It is the start of spring.  It is an exciting time in nature.  It is the start of new life.  It is the sign of change.  New buds appear on the trees and bushes.  They have been dormant through the winter.

We see these changes in our lives as well.  They may not follow closely to the seasons of nature, but we still have seasons.  Have you attended a seminar and walked away motivated to change a part of your life or an approach to something at work? 

How many of you have decided that now is the time to eat healthier and get your bodies in better shape for a trip to the beach this summer?  You have been dormant during the winter and it is now time to get some new life.  I relate it to trying to put the bad parts of the past season behind us.  I am glad that the cold winter weather is gone. 

Think about some of the bad habits that you have and you want to shed.  Now is a good time to concentrate on developing better habits.  How have you treated your co-workers lately?  Do you treat them with respect?  Do you lend a helping hand when needed or an ear during times of struggle?  Now would be the perfect time to change the season in our relationships with our teammates.

In the third chapter of Ecclesiastes it says "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."  We can look to God for direction in our lives.  Where does He want us to change?  What are His expectations in the next season?

I looked at the weather forecast for next week and it calls for another chance for snow.  Even though we are in a new season, sometimes part of the past season comes back temporarily.  This happens in our lives as well.  We start into the new season and then something from the past comes back to discourage us.  Stay positive.  Just like spring time, there will be more pleasant days than cold ones.

What are you doing this spring to make a positive change in your life?  Leave your comments below so we can learn from each other. 

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Do you need an adjustment in your life?

3/11/2014

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    I experienced an injury this past weekend while running a half marathon.  When I went to the doctor, he recommended a chiropractor because he said that my hips looked like they were out of alignment.
    X-rays that were taken confirmed this and I am now under chiropractic care.  It made me think about my life in general.  I have talked about the fact that we should be pursuing God's will, not ours.  Do we need an adjustment in our lives to achieve this?
    My hips and spine did not get out of alignment by not doing anything.  It either was caused because of an event, like a fall, or over time by doing the wrong things.  This same concept can be applied to where we stand in doing God's will in our lives.
    What starts out as bad habits or hanging out with the wrong crowds slowly pulls us away from God.  What starts as a small sin (in our eyes) becomes a habit that we no longer consider a sin.  Peer pressure takes us further down that path.  What would we see if we could take an x-ray of our lives and compare it to what God wants from us?  What would we do to change, or would we?
    It is not too late to do that self evaluation.  I believe that all of our experiences in our lives are there to prepare us for further service to God.  I had a bout of depression a number of years back so I could be a better counselor for a friend that more recently went through the same experience.
  I was not the best husband that I could have been and it took me a long time to realize that.  I can use that experience to educate my sons so that they do not go down that same path.
    Let me know what you found out in your self evaluation that you are working towards adjusting in your life.  It may help someone else that is reading this.


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