Reacting to Change in a Positive Way

A new season alters your emotions and tugs at the spirit. Fall shades have beckoned us to the mountains of Durango in southwestern Colorado. Soft, tufted carpets of magenta and brown, Citrix 1Y0-308 exam splashed with a mist of red and overshadowed by a slight breath of gold, have covered the hillsides.
Aspen trees are well aware that their colorful transformation touches our senses, making us desirous to come close to experience their transformation...to come close to their beauty.
The gold, glistening leaves in the sunshine shimmer like small, rare coins. I watch as leaves lazily decide it's time to break communion with the branches and drift to the ground to disintegrate and be trampled. Yet they, too, know they will be reclaimed into new life as they strengthen other trees.
I have discovered that the trees do not resist change. They simply submit to the call on their lives with the knowledge that another season is approaching. Whether the season is gentle or harsh, they have learned to bear up under the conditions due to the strength of their root system.
Just as the leaves of the aspens abandon the tree leaving bare, stripped branches, we, too, are left exposed. We don't like Citrix 1Y0-A19 exam this place very well because we feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. We would rather cover ourselves with the old--bad habits, poor relationships, and negative thoughts.
Yet the aspen tree does not bend over to retrieve old leaves for the sake of covering itself. That is not the nature of the tree. It knows nutrients are at work in the roots.
It is a temporary time of strengthening and absorbing that which will make it strong and beautiful again. It is in this temporary state of change that God does His best work in our lives. It is in this state that we are being groomed and prepared for the season ahead. To resist only prolongs the proper nurturing and tender care of the Father.
"Dear God, help me to shed pointless whining and unfruitful habits. I desire to lay them down and not pick them up again. 117-101 Nudge me, Holy Spirit, when I begin to reach for the weak things in life. May I purpose today to hunger for only the fruit of the Spirit; love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness goodness and faithfulness."