Slacker

So I guess I've kinda been a slacker when it comes to blogging.  Maybe it is because I'm pretty convinced that nobody reads my blog other than myself.  However, I logged on today and saw that I have a follower!  =)  Hello my one and only follower, my cousin Dana and maybe Josh?  It is fitting that you are my only follower as you are the one who got me interested in the idea of blogging. 

This has been a crazy weird week, month, year.  We've had lots of changes; we moved, BIG change, we decided to homeschool our children, BIG BIG change, and we are in the process of finding a new church home, BIG BIG BIG change.  There have been other changes along the way but those are probably the three biggies.  It seems everything happens in three so it seemed fitting to pick just three.  But back to my point.  With change comes conflict, or at least it seems to in my life.  Conflict isn't always bad.  I can hear you say, good conflict?  Yeah the two words don't seem to go together cohesively, but they can, and if I have to experience conflict it is my preference.

A previous job actually had my co-workers and self attend a conflict resolution seminar.  It is amazing at all the different types of conflict there are, personal, situational, communication, organizational, and so on.  And there are good, bad and destructive management patters.  So having said that, the types of conflict we've experienced in our lives over the past year have been a mix and the management, well I wish I could say it was all good.  But I would be lying if I did.

Sunday morning Pastor Mark was preaching on conflict and he said, "God will disrupt us and conflict is normal".  And it made me think back to everything over the past year.  Man has He disrupted our lives in the last year and man oh man is the conflict here.  I felt better leaving on Sunday morning thinking of how minor my conflict is compared to some.  I mean He disrupted Noah asking him to build an Ark.  Imagine the conflict that must have brought for Noah.  Or when God positioned David to face Goliath.  Or changing Saul's conversion to Paul.

Makes my disruption seem like a piece of cake, only I've dealt with the conflict management completely wrong.  I've tried to handle it on my own, instead of giving it to God.  Wow, talk about a BIG mistake.  So with the help of God from today forward I'm giving it to Him.  I'm trusting Him to get us through this as He has my whole life.  I'm no longer going to try and fix it or change it, I'm going to go to my knees.  And then when the next big season of conflict comes around, hopefully I'll be a little wiser and a little more like Christ and will know how to better handle it.

So as you go about your life if you find yourself in a season of conflict, hang on God is moving and if you trust Him and put your faith in Him, He'll do some big things!!