Dealing With Adjustments

 

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5 

At every stage of life we must make adjustments. From starting school to starting a new job, our first date until marriage, every new thing in life brings adjustments.

Yet perhaps it is the last stage of life that brings the most adjustments our way. From having good eyesight to needing ever stronger prescription glasses. From enjoying good hearing to needing hearing aids. The hardest adjustment of all is watching friends and loved ones die. There is no adjustment harder than that.

Life is about change. From beginning to end we must accept changes and are forever making adjustments until the Lord calls us home. Each season brings difficulties, but also blessings if we are open to them.

I don’t enjoy getting older. It takes a toll on mind and body. Yet I do enjoy seeing loved ones grow and have little ones of their own. I like being a grandpa, and the expectation of being wiser, even if that is not always the case.

God brings us into many situations that require us to make adjustments. We can fight those situations, or pray for the grace and wisdom to accept them. Hopefully we ask the Lord for grace and grow with the adjustments that come our way.

Prayer: Dear Lord, change is hard, and making adjustments does not come easy. Give us the grace, wisdom, and strength to make the necessary adjustments in our life. Amen.