Changing times

Have you ever noticed how change really bothers some people? Like nothing should ever change, we should live the same life over and over, like a horrible version on "Ground Hog's Day" which was terrible enough by itself. Why are we so afraid of change? We see it every day. Nothing is ever really the same. Even if we tried to make it so, it would be different.
Having a baby really shows you how much change is prevalent in our lives. He is certainly not the same kid he was a year ago and I wouldn't want him to be. Although he was a cute baby and at 6 months old was not mobile, which had its benefits, it would not be wonderful for him to be a year and a half still not moving around. He now uses words I can understand, some I can't, but most that I can. He is becoming his own little human, with thoughts and ideas of his own. Why would we want that to stop changing?
I understand that it is good to have things that are stable in our lives. Living in chaos is not ideal and makes us crazy. However even the things that are stable should also be changing. If those things never changed, be it a relationship with a spouse or friend, it would get stale rather quickly. Think of how many shows you have stopped watching or games you haven't played for a long time or books you only read once because you now know the story. We don't go back to those things because they are boring and they are predictable. There is a difference between reliable and predictable and I for one get rather bored with predictable pretty quickly. They say that the average American now has an attention span of 8 min. So why are we not wanting things like the church to change? What worries us about that change?
The truth is, God's reliability never changes. The way we talk about His unconditional love sometimes changes but the truth of His unconditional love doesn't. It is always there, it is never changing. However our relationship with God is ever changing or at least should be. As humans we make mistakes, we wonder off and we find something new and shiny that grabs our attention and takes us away from our relationship with God. Then we must work on making it better again. God never falters because He is God. He is a perfect being that loves without condition and knows that we will make mistakes and waits for us to return. He is much like a dog, always sad to see us leave and always happy to see us return, no matter what has happened in between. I guess that is one more reason that dog is God spelled backwards.
Life is ever changing, our relationships are ever changing, the church itself should be ever changing, growing, morphing into better disciples for Christ. The church is not the building, it is the people inside. God does not care about your church building, I hate to say, God cares about us. God cares about what we are doing and how we are changing. We should embrace the changes around us, knowing that it means we are growing. It is our job to make sure that we are changing ourselves and the world for the better. How are you changing? I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Until next time,
~Michelle