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Graeme’s Page February 2009
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Change!
The past few weeks have been full of very unusual and remarkable weather. That, with all the financial turmoil, makes these times very unusual and uncertain. When Martin Luther King gave his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963, would he have believed that 45 years later,
Change is inevitable; we are all getting older, some of us are getting rounder, while others get thinner, some are getting taller and hopefully we’re all growing in intelligence.
Change can be really exciting (the presidential celebrations in America show us that), but often we find change hard or stressful, which can lead to us hiding from it, objecting to it or most often, just learning to cope.
As we go through these turbulent times, I am comforted by the Bible which says that ‘God doesn’t change’ Malachi 3 v6 and that God along with his promises are like an anchor for the soul (Hebrews 6 v19).
The soul is a word to describe ‘the real me’. Often we describe people by their outward appearance or what we do for a living, but the truth is that that isn’t who we really are. We have a true self and a unique personality, a part of us that will live forever when our physical body dies.
What is the anchor for your soul? What keeps you true to yourself when everything around is changing? Do you even know who the real you is?
Perhaps it’s friends or family that are your anchor. Or maybe it’s a positive attitude or a life philosophy that you have. I am a very positive, confident person but the truth is that I need something more. What I need, I have found in God. He is the anchor for my soul. I don’t see reliance on God as a sign of weakness, rather I think it’s a sign of common sense.
So with everything changing around us changing, why not talk to God about it and let Him become your anchor too.
Graeme
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Duke Street,
Bildeston,
Suffolk