Be Transformed!

Be Transformed…
Do you find life chaotic? Do you crave peace and quiet and time to just be? Do you try to control your life only to find it lands in chaos anyways? How much time do we spend trying to maintain order in our lives and surroundings! You know something is amiss in life but not quite know how to fix it.

This summer I have been spending a bit of time in nature. I take walks in forests, sit by the seaside, and gaze up at the night sky. What I see is lots of randomness and chaos. The forest can be a messy place with flowers and trees intermixing with weeds and vines. The night sky has scattered stars and planets and the ocean splashes water everywhere! There seems to be chaos everywhere I look! Just like our lives… we try our best to keep order but we fall into disorder. I got to thinking, however, despite the chaos there is a balance and equilibrium to nature. Nature is perfect! Perhaps there is order in chaos and perhaps God’s plan for us is that once we stop controlling everything ourselves and surrender to chaos that maybe we will find equilibrium and God. I took another look at a mountain meadow and saw beauty in the “messy” clumps of wildflowers and thought the seemingly random placement of trees, bushes, blades of grass may seem scattered to us but each seed, each animal, each flower and weed were lovingly placed there by God’s hand. This was more beautiful to me than the most cultured garden planted by men.

Our lives are messy at times… but do not run away from it! Dive right into the messiness as we might dive into a pile of leaves in the fall. Learn to find equilibrium in chaos. Let us be transformed! Paul offers this advice:

Do not conform yourselves to this age
but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that you may discern what is the will of God,
what is good and pleasing and perfect. -Rom 12:2

Imagine the world once we all are transformed!

God Bless, Holly Clark