Kansas winds can be quite something! But so can the winds of change!! Sometimes change can come in like a gentle breeze and other times it feels tornadic! There are times that I would love to have a "wind warning" for change like we do for the weather. ---Wind speeds could reach 90 mph causing roof and tree damage -- these change winds are going to knock you off your feet! Sometimes, like a weather forecast, we know that the change is coming. However, even when knowing, it is hard to prepare for just how it will affect us. But just as we will always have wind, we will also have change. We may not like it, will complain about it - it is part of life as we know it and we need to be able to embrace it. Now I have no idea what it would look like to pull wind into a hug and embracing a tornado seems like the worst idea ever.
We have had months (maybe years) that the wind blew and whipped around us. Hard decisions, conversations and changes. However, finding my true direction would be far beyond my initial thoughts when we created the sign. The winds of change in my life have served a purpose. At first it was standing on my own, saying "I can do hard things". I've had to learn to figure out how to do things that I've never done and know when to ask for help with things that I can't do - both equally important and "wins". Then realizing who I am and developing a guiding foundational blueprint. That foundational blueprint, is built to withstand the winds and point me to "true north". During the winds of change these truths remain and provide the guardrails to keep me safe and secure. I've never thought of it as one of my life compasses, but it is! A simple compass is amazing because when you pick it up, it always points to magnetic north. The Gospel of Mark is like a compass. You pick it up and it always points to True North–Jesus Christ. And according to Mark, the True North that the whole world depends on to be reconciled back to God is Jesus Christ. The very first verse of Mark says what his whole letter is all about: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” (Mark 1:1). In a sense Mark is saying, “I’m giving you a compass, this is an accurate picture of the man Jesus Christ, and throughout all of history when people read these accounts, it will always point you to True North, it will point you squarely toward the One Man who Matters Most. (Credit Link)
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