It is September, another new month in our new state. It is beautiful here in Maryland! The weather is cool, the grass is vibrant green, the sky is electric blue, and the clouds are cotton white. The sound of the geese heading south for winter is glorious (you wouldn’t believe the huge turds they leave in parking lots… soooooooo grose). Our open windows let the cool, fragrant, September breeze infiltrate our home and our lungs. The changing of the seasons is upon us, and I am grateful.

There is something in me that longs for change. If it doesn’t happen by divine intervention, I seek it out by rearranging furniture, hanging new things on the wall, creating a new schedule for myself, painting, cutting my hair, dying my hair, or simply adding a new pic to my desktop. I do this because I love the freshness of life when change happens, but I have found that the types of change I can manufacture are only satisfying for a moment. I yearn for transformation and restoration. These types of change are God-given through His direction, His creation, and His intervention. Our transformation and restoration will only happen if we are obedient… there are times God speaks change into being, but most of the time he refines us through obedience. True change enhances and increases the intimacy in my relationship with Abba, and tunes me into the frequency of His heart. That is why I love change.

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“Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean,  scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,  set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes,  give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me,  shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise.”

Psalm 51:12 (The Message) 

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Enjoying the September view from our rear windows…