I was reading words from Elizabeth Sherrill in Guideposts this morning about change. One of the main things that we may see in nature is the constant change in everything around us. If it is living, as in people, plants, and animals, it is constantly growing, never remaining as it was, ever. If the objects are inanimate, they are constantly being broken down, atom by atom, until they return to the building blocks of life again.. Against this very obvious demonstration of God as creativity and change, I find myself wanting to be creative, but then not wanting the change part. I clean up fields, fix fences and buildings, doctor and feed all sorts of animals, and spend much of my energy building my “picture frame” around God’s bounty, but then I don’t want it to change. This desire we all have to “freeze” life when we have it where we like it, where it makes us feel secure and creative, is also of God. God is, always, eternal, and as such never changes while constantly creating and changing. I need to find my desire for “changelessness” not in my surroundings, or circumstances, but right where it’s always been, in God.
