it is amazing to see the changes that happen... today as the "Supergroup".... (almost our whole competitive team, 97 kids between the ages of 5 and 15)..was warming up I couldn't help but notice how much has changed....as I was hanging around the Dance Competition, the fourth year at this particular one because we like it that much...my daughter being one of the oldest there.... I feel slightly removed from the action... this is her 7th season, the studio itself has only had one more competitive season... at some point in time we knew pretty much everyone, kids and parents... today when the "Supergroup" was warming up I couldn't believe how many of those kids I have not even seen before....
it is wonderful for the studio to continue to grow, it is amazing to see the kids grow up and mature...it is great but for me it is also already turning into something bittersweet... after this season there are only 3 left until my daughter will no longer compete... crazy....
so many things have changed and are changing.... I really don't like it.....
as someone not that young any more I know that changing and maturing is very often accompanied by difficulties and trials... over the last almost 2 years we definitely have had our share of those... thinking about those changes and the maturing process... I was tweeting some scripture on twitter today ... (I have to work on the "trend" I like #SoliDeoGloria ).... I looked up a verse that has given me so much hope....
Job 42:2 I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted......
changes in our lives, like mothers all of a sudden on the brink of death... children growing up and moving on, commitments meant to last a lifetime tossed aside like useless garbage.... pretty scary and unsettling......
but then, there is He... the One whose plans cannot only not be thwarted but as it says in Jeremiah 29:11... they are plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us a hope and a future....
the break up of a family... a plan to prosper and not to harm????? a life threatening medical emergency... a hope and a future?????
.....we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose..... Romans 8:28.... ha.... okay.... and what's the purpose???
2 Corinthians 3:18 we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
and here it comes... this is, what it is all about:
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
