becoming

The prayer garden was beautifully moving into fall when Helene blew through.

As the tree crew left last week, having moved eight of the dropped and cut-up trees along the road for pick-up, I looked out on the yard and felt disappointment. There are no easy fixes for these newly vacant spaces – it took 40 years for those seedlings to grow into trees.

But, as usual, God offers a lesson in this.

It’s not the lesson of what was, it’s a lesson of what will be.

A lesson of becoming.

Just like a landscape permanently changed by wind and flood, our lives are forever changing. Forever becoming.

And just as I don’t know how long it will take or what exactly the prayer garden will look like next year or 10 or 20 years from now, I cannot predict a specific time for what is transforming in the deep-down, inside work of God in my own life’s becoming.

It turns out that becoming is the lesson of all of our days.

I’m finding that He consistently widens and narrows, raises and lowers, plants and reaps, the things of my life - it’s always changing.

Always becoming.

He knows I must not become stagnant or I’ll likely settle and never grow into what He wants me to become.

It’s up to me to weather the changes, looking only at Jesus, “the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). Becoming does not, will not end until we finish the race. And only God knows the day that completion will come.

So lean into God’s mighty, transforming and compassionate work in and through you. He is working for your good.

You can trust Him with your beautiful becoming…

Today is a GOOD day!

Natalie