Who moved my cheese?!

The last semester I worked at Baylor, our entire staff read the book “Who Moved My Cheese?”  This is probably the easiest read ever, but it has such a powerful message about change.  Well, right now I’m wondering who moved my cheese.  We found out about a lot of changes on our squad about a week ago.  Some of those changes included:

 

 

I’m usually one to wish for change and embrace it when it happens, but this has been especially difficult for me.  In the book, there are four mice (can’t remember all their cute little names) and they are put into different situations of how they can handle/respond to changes.  One moved forward and adapted, one only went along with some of the change and therefore was only partly successful, one kept going back to his old ways, and one completely denied that anything could be different and therefore missed out on the abundant life.   So, how am I responding to these drastic changes?  I would like to think that I’m a person who can embrace it and take things as they come and adapts easily….I would like to think…

 

God answered a huge prayer that I’ve had for a while and that I continue to pray about every day.  I don’t want to go through the motions and let people come and go into and out of my life without really knowing them…I don’t want to stay on the surface with my relationships.  When Team JSL first came together, we didn’t have a whole lot in common, we were about as different as you could be.  Over the three months, though, we began to grow a connection that went deeper than our differences, that went below the surface of what we didn’t have in common.  We grew together as a unified family…yeah, maybe it was more just in the last few weeks, but we were, no we ARE, a family.  I didn’t realize this until we had arrived in Kuala Lumpur and one by one I watched my family members walk away with new teams into unfamiliar places.  Even now, days later, I’m still choked up about it.  God finally allowed me to break down walls and let people in…and I wanted to be immersed in their lives.  My heart hurts in ways that I’m not familiar with – I’m the tough one, remember?  I don’t want to miss out on all that God does in their lives, it’s hard to wake up and not see Caley or the Emily’s right next to me, I miss Auston blowing spit bubbles on me all the time, I won’t get to hear Eric’s laugh on a daily basis.  I didn’t know I could feel like this for people I’ve only known for a couple of months.  I guess God really can move in ways that I can’t fathom.  🙂 

But with all change comes newness and growth and excitement!!!  I now have six beautiful women I get to serve with and pour into every day.  We’ve been Team ‘No Name’ for a few days so far and I’m absolutely fascinated by these women.  I can see EXACTLY why God has placed us together and I’m positive there are even more reasons that He will reveal as we go on over the next 8 months.  Since the day I was informed of my new team there has been a stirring in my spirit that I cannot explain.  God has big plans for this team!  Please pray for supernatural unity and a bond that goes deep right from the start.  We have a unique opportunity to serve the Lord in crazy/amazing ways and I’m pumped to see where God takes us!  My new team is:

Check these amazing women out on their blogs…I would make a link to them, but I don’t know how to do that yet…I have a feeling I will become much more computer savvy over the next couple of months (Ashley is kinda amazing at all that stuff!)