rearrange

Spring is an amazing season of rebirth, new beginnings and hope. After the long, dreary days of waking to the morning and retiring to bed in darkness, we feel rejuvenated and alive when the sleeping earth stretches her arms to welcome warmer days. There is a change and it’s time to rearrange.

Rearranging simply means changing time, position or order of something. At the molecular level, molecules undergo a reorganization of its constituent parts and there can be spontaeous chemical reactions. Does “spring fever” sound familiar? And then there is the transformation of rearranging - moving our furniture or the spring cleaning as we purge. Others want to create a newness and begin to plant seedlings, anxious to get them in the ground and watch them thrive under the summer sun, reaping their harvests in the fall.

And then there are those of us who wish to create a new story of ourselves and rearrange some of our old habits and create a more vibrant way of living. It can’t always be night. We don’t have to be alone. It doesn’t have to be broken. We don’t have to be sucked into the vortex of our culture. We can thrive - not just survive. We can live; not just exist. What can we do?

We can pray in the power of prayer - read the Word - encourage others are just a few activities to start the day. Being vulnerable with difficult truths - acknowledging our faults with others is another. Walking in God’s Truth is to start rearranging some of our thoughts and knowing that We are God’s big plan! That’s a reason to praise Him! What rearrangements will you work on this week as we spring forward?

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12: 1-2