Comfortable...

Humans like to do what's most comfortable... What's easy... what's known...

Not that there is anything wrong with doing what we know and find to be easy and comfortable...  but...

Sometimes in life we are required to do things that are uncomfortable...awkward...unknown and scary even... sometimes in life we have to step outside our comfort zone to brave new worlds in order to grow and mature and become whom we were meant to be. Sometimes we are given a choice in the matter... sometimes we are forced into a change.

Sometimes the door seems to be closing on us before we are able to get out (mentally ready for the change)...  those times are the hardest.  We, by nature want things easy, comfortable and what we know and when we are put into a position of having to go down a new path in life that is not anything like we had been walking without a choice, without warning... it takes some time to adjust. But... you can't take too much time,  OR the door will end up slamming on your toes! 

In some respects, I'm not like most people. I like change, for the most part. I should say I adjust easily to most change. I look at life changes as adventures. And just by use of the word adventure to me, means fun! Because how can you go on an adventure and not have fun?! I look at life as an adventure everyday. Some days are more fun than others. Having your best friends to go on adventures in life with makes it so much better. I used to not be able to get together with friends to share life with them because my ex husband wouldn't let me and didn't want to have any friends to have get togethers with. Everytime I would try to have friends over he'd pout like an infant and just be so hard to get along with and then he'd be rude when they were there, that it just wasn't worth the trouble. He'd never watch our children so I could go out with friends.

So... now that I'm single, I can have friends over, I can get together with friends and share my life and their lives. I can be free to be whom I was meant to be. It's so very refreshing!... I will never go back to being with a man that does not want friends and get togethers with friends. For friendship is a gift from God. Why would I want to give back an awesome amazing gift like that?! I have been blessed with some truly amazing friends! I have lost my best friend (ex boy) which was one of those life changes I was talking about. Sometimes those things happen in life... it's sad... it's hard... it takes adjustment... but if I don't let go of that, I may miss out on something better that God has planned for me. So, out of my comfort zone I went a year ago.

It's not been an easy year to tell you the truth. It's hard to learn how to let go of something you have such a tight grip on your heart with. It's been a mental adjustment in thinking you had a future with someone and then discover that it's not going to work out afterall. That adjustment... is not really what I'd call the adventure type. (lol!)... Going out on dates with perfect strangers is an adventure!... Though, again NOT really an adventure I'd like to keep living! Sometimes in life you have to set limits to the amount of  'fun' you can allow yourself to experience!... I've met my limit of that type 'fun' in the dating department for awhile... a long while.
But that's okay... I have some awesome friends to hang out with and share our lives together... you don't always need to have a significant other.


In order to grow... we must be stretched.  The potter can't mold the clay without making it look out of shape in the process. The potter doesn't give up at that point. Because he has the image in his head of what he is sculpting and how it will look when it's completed. There are different steps and stages to making a work of art. They don't just happen.

God's our potter... He's working everyday that we allow Him to work in us to mold us and shape us into His own unique work of art. Sometimes that means that we are put into uncomfortable positions in life. Positions that require us to reach deep into the core of our beings and pull from ourselves maturity and self awareness and the desire to want to grow and become truly whom we were meant to be. And in as much as it makes us super uncomfortable and uneasy and scared of what's happening to us and where our lives are going... we have to remain faithful to our God and King, the Master Potter whom is simply trying to make an amazing work of art that He can use for His Kingdom to bring Honor and Glory to Him. 

So, mold me and shape oh God for it is you that I am living my life for!