A Time For Us

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I'm sitting here eating wheat thins. Something as simple as a cracker that has been around for many years has changed. I remember them being bigger and with more flavor. Why does there always seem a need for change? I'm not an expert, but I can only guess it was due to the cost of ingredients that are used to produce the cracker, while trying to maintain its original taste or close to the original taste. Did the recipe and size change due to health reasons? Do they figure, that just like their crackers, consumers change and we won't notice? We notice and I can tell you I loved the taste of the original cracker from years ago much better. This doesn't only affect the innocent wheat thin, it has happened to a lot of the food products that we have consumed over the years. Sometimes we think it might be because our hands have gotten bigger. I can tell you that's not it as my hands quit growing when I was quite young.

Even our bodies go through drastic changes as we daily live. Not only through the aging process, but also as we go through different experiences in our lives, it can impact our bodies. Childbirth for instance had a negative impact on my once thin body. Our environments can change our bodies. Sometimes those changes impact our health both in good ways and bad. Recently at the age of 65, I took a fall and injured myself. I remember that same fall when I was a child would have become a gymnastic maneuver and I could tuck and roll and end up on my feet. My goodness, just getting on the floor and getting up off the floor today is a challenge.

As a child, when change would happen, we would be surprised of the changes. Now as adults, we have come to realize that life is fluid and change is all part of the process. I remember as a child my days seemed to last forever and I felt like I had all the time in the world. These days, I wake up and before I know it, it is 9:00PM!! I always ask myself, "Where did the day go?" 

To those who are parents, don't you remember how raising your children just kept moving forward and with each phase, you kept asking yourself, "How did we get to this phase already?" When you first became a parent, there should have been a manual (some people have tried) that tells you what to expect with each phase. I'm in the empty nester phase and oh my goodness, it is so quiet and at times can be very lonely not having those sounds around me. 

When it came to my schooling, I had a lot of change 13 different schools from elementary to college.  I've lived in 15 different cities in my life so far.  I've attended 11 different denominations of churches. I've had 8 different titles in my career up to retirement. I challenge you to one day, just sit and think of all the changes that have occurred in your life thus far. The statistics are interesting.

There have been so many changes in my friend circles. As a child, I didn't have a lot of friends, but in my adulthood, so many people have come and gone in my life. God blessed me with numerous family members. In both groups, some of those who passed through left through death. Those changes are the hardest ones for sure. However, I have a hope that there will be a wonderful reunion at the end of time and I will see most of those people again. But continuing my journey without them is a change that isn't the easiest to understand.

I'm noticing now as I'm aging, that the children that I used to guide and give advice to are now looking out after me and giving me guidance and advice. I've learned to embrace their wisdom. 

The only change that has happened in my relationship with God has been of my own doing. I love that we are promised that He never changes, He is the same. Hebrews 13:8 James 1:17

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens; a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)





 

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  1. AnonymousAugust 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM

    Does accepting change bring peace or surrender.

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    1. Cindy GrenierAugust 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM

      I would say both depending on the change.

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