Fun to once in a while to look back at some of my first Karen's Korners. Here is one from June twenty-one years ago!

Today is Wednesday, June 11th, 2003; Karen's Korner #68

Yesterday I caught a portion of a speaker on a Christian television program. His topic was talking about change and how much humans dislike it.
 
I don't know many people who like changes! It takes a while to adjust to additions to our families, and we do worse with subtractions. Job changes and moving to new locations throw us for loops for a while. Parents lament their children leaving home after graduations; and don't know what to do with them a few months later when they come home for short stays. Disrupted schedules are to be avoided. Aging, and the changes that are presented to each of us, is a story in itself!
 
Bottom line: we don't like to change!
 
This speaker said the reason we don't like change is because we weren't designed for it: when God made Adam and Eve, He wanted "things" to last forever! That was the plan. Only one thing the twosome had to do: keep God #1; they were #2. Dogs, cats, alligators, penguins, etc. were on down the list. Through the power of suggestion, Adam and Eve decided to try being #1 instead.........and that is when change was introduced to all of us.
 
The good news is that this isn't the end of the story! We can be introduced to a kingdom where things never end, where change is once again excluded. God invites us to make Him #1 again; we can accept or reject that choice! If we say "yes", will we still experience change in this life? Yep! But not in the one that is coming. We are guaranteed a place in the next kingdom; and even the trip from this one to the next one is loaded with more possibilities, if He is #1!
 
When we no longer demand to be in charge of this life and instead become His Children, we begin to hear words like "unconditional and everlasting love", "eternal life"......... stuff that doesn't change, things that last forever. That's what makes "His story"..... becoming "Our story" so attractive.....

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