A Chance to Change

Start as a seed, brittle and small,

Worth really nothing, nothing at all.

Bring me a caterpillar, ugly as mess,

Now, try to give that thing a caress.

But give these some time, some nourishment too,

And see, just see if they surprise you.

Put that seed into some dirt,

Give it some water, down in that earth,

Shine in some sunlight, make it to grow,

Pick up the caterpillar too, oh I don't know,

Give him some leaves a twig, or a branch,

and let that poor thing a bigger chance.

A chance to grow, a chance to become,

A chance to change, and to overcome.

Overcome the expectations, overcome the fears,

And continue to change throughout all their years.

One soars as a companion to the beautiful sky,

The other the earth, it stands close by,

Both so beautiful, and graceful a testimony of God,

But they started limited, ugly, and closed off.

Both had potential though it seems strange,

They just needed a chance to change

Jesus Christ is waiting for us to reach out and accept His help. Wherever you are at in your journey of faith, I urge you to once again and accept the reaching hand of our Savior, and Grow!

Change

For most of us, Change is hard.

We get comfortable. We are happy where we are at. We have "enough". This is exactly how I felt. Recently, I was transferred from Vacaville to Santa Rosa, and I had a huge change! I had been in Vacaville for 7 months, and I loved the people there. We were teaching many, and I loved each of them. Then, I found out I was being transferred.

For me and for the people I was teaching, this was difficult. We were comfortable. I even had one wonderful lady threaten to not come to church if I left. (We talked her down from that lofty threat, explaining that this change is necessary.)

In a lot of ways, 'mission life' mirrors 'normal life'. In normal every day life, we get comfortable where we're at. We go to church every week, have the same schedule, and we are happy with our family, and happy with our life. Sometimes we get so comfortable, that we don't change. We know it would be better for us, but we justify it in our own minds.

Already in Santa Rosa, we were able to meet a wonderful man, who accepted to be baptized on December 5th. Would I have gotten this incredible opportunity to invite someone to follow the example of Jesus Christ, if I hadn't been willing to change?

We grow when we are uncomfortable. One of my friends back home wrote a poem, about a flower. I can't recite it off the top of my head, I wish I could it's a gorgeous poem, but it says that the flower was put in a box, and there it died, because it could not grow.

Think about our lives, if we don't force ourselves outside the box how are we going to grow? So today, I'm going to give you a challenge. Go outside your box, bear your testimony to someone, and if that is inside your box, leave them with a challenge. Only you know where you have placed your limits, find them break them, and Grow your Faith!