Five Minute Friday :: Open

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This week's prompt is: 

GO

I hate change.

I am faced with a major life change, and my flesh is fighting it tooth and nail.

And why? Because it doesn't go with my vision. My perspective.There's that word again. Perspective.

And it makes me so frustrated, because I need to have God's perspective on this, and His view is wide open to all the tomorrows that I face, and He sees how little (or how big) this change is, and He knows where it will take me and how important it will be.

And I need to have His perspective so my view will be open to whatever He wants to do.

But I want to curl up in the fetal position and nurse my fears and guard my dreams and goals and vision. I don't want to be open because that feels vulnerable.

But I have to be willing to be vulnerable, if I am going to go forward. If I don't embrace change, no matter how hard it is, I am like squealing tires that make lots of noise but never get anywhere.

I need to put into practice what I preach, which means I need to be willing to trust and obey Him, to be open to His leading, even when it is hard. And it is really hard right now.