I have an amazing ability to adapt and become okay with unchangeable environments. I worked for 2.5 years in an office with no window. I would change the visuals in my office every so often to make up for it and diffuse different scents or light different candles daily to help with sensory change. It was no big deal. After all, I was so blessed just to get an office to myself with a door!
I have recently moved into an office that has an entire wall of windows. Floor to ceiling wall of windows. They don’t open but it is wonderful to look out and see the wind blowing the long pink flowers on the green bush.
There are floor to ceiling blinds that cover this wall of windows and the center blind doesn’t have a working adjuster. The blinds are chronically closed. Within the first day I just accepted this fact and moved on, opening the other blinds and creating a peaceful space with the rest of the wall hangings.
My boss was more bothered by this broken blind and so spent 2 hours the other day attempting to fix it. We took apart 2 different blinds trying to find this missing piece. But unfortunately this broken blind was unique unto itself and we couldn’t borrow this one plastic piece from another to fix this one.
It’s funny all that search for one simple tiny plastic screw.
It was closing time so he told me to go ahead and go and he would put them back up before heading home.
The next morning when I walked in, he was very excited to show me something – the still broken blind.
When he put it back up he noticed that the blind was closed but he was a little mystified as to how it got that way. He pulled the one of the three strings that holds all the slats in place and discovered it was that simple to fix.
It made me laugh because how many times in my life do I spend so much time looking to fix the piece that’s broken, when in fact God is wanting me to chuck the broken piece and find His creative solution with what is next?
The middle blind has quickly become my favorite as it is so easy to open and close whereas the others that still have the twist adjuster are slightly more effort and time consuming to open and close (honestly we are talking seconds difference here… but still).
What in your life are you hyper focused on fixing that God is asking you to simply let go of?
What creative solution will He provide today?
