el tiempo se va, se va

It seems like the time accelerator is getting pushed down. Time is going really fast and before I know it, I'll no longer be in Argentina. I have 3 weeks left, and one of those weekends is a trip to a triathlon (I'm not a participant, just a supporter).

On one hand it's weird; something that has been fully my life for the past two years will suddenly be different. On the other, we go through noticeable changes like this in life quite often. Change can be hard, but I think there's a deeper plan in God's ordained changes. If it were all the same all the time, we'd get complacent, bored of our lives, bored of the beautiful world we've been given in which to live. I think we're also able to recognize more the variety and benefit of what God has given us in life by seeing that throughout many different "jobs" or "seasons" of our life, there is an unbending and undying constant - the full richness of Christ. So overall it's good that we go through significant changes in life - marriage, children, graduating high school, college, senior citizen discount age

Think about it this way - would you want to eat just one food for your whole life? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 76 years. Sunday through Saturday. Cereal could be an example because it's well balanced in many of the vitamins and nutrients one needs. So Raisin Bran Crunch, that's it, for life. Boring huh? So no, we like variety in our foods. But there are constant elements. A carbohydrate is a carbohydrate and a protein is a protein, calcium...they're all found in a variety of foods but yet remain the same.

That example is not meant at all to diminish Christ's glory and the fullness of Him with a comparison of cereal, just to hopefully understand that variety and change in life of jobs and assignments and living locations and relationships is a thing that blesses us.