I’m writing this while listening to sawzalls, hammers, and other noise producing equipment in my usually very peaceful, harmonious, and quiet house   Yep .. It’s remodel time!!

With every wall shattered, beam exposed, and wire dangling that urge to say “STOP!!! I CHANGED MY MIND!!!”  grows inside of me.   But I say nothing.  I just continue my mantra … “This will be awesome .. This will be awesome .. This will be awesome.”  And I look the pictures of what we plan, take a few deep breaths .. And trust.

For those that have remodeled, either in the physical world, or the internal world, you may know the process.   We have great ideas and vision of what we want to create, what we want to experience, what we want to craft.   But we’d really like those end results without the remodel mess. 

So I listen the destruction below, and just keep remembering this is all for the better.  And I remember that sometimes, stripping out the old is the only way to make room for the new.    It’s all part of the process.  And  in the end, we get to enjoy the beauty of what we have newly created.  Until the next remodel, of course.   Because if we honor the creative creatures we are, we’ll always be drawn to expand and express, and remodeling is unavoidable.  Thank goodness for short memories.

What are you remodeling this summer?

You are Precious.  You are Awesome. 

Rev. Kristin