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Chaplain’s Corner: CHANGE What is your response to change? Change is a continuous
families, and other familiar places. A time which can be stressful and sad. Change! What can we hold onto that never changes? Scripture gives us the answer in Psalm 102:25-27. In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain;
part of our lives. We can keep certain things the same for a while but inevitably all situations and things become different. Sometimes the change comes
quickly and other times it is almost impossible to tell when the change begins; but at some point, we recognize things are now different. The fall season is now beginning around us. The air has a different feeling, the seasonal plants are beginning to show deterioration after growing for the summer, and did you notice some of the trees are beginning to change their leaf color. Change! My wife and I notice changes in our grandchildren that sneak up on us. Our toddler grandkids struggle with language as they mature. We struggle with understanding as they have conversations with us. Many times, I will ask my wife as I am trying to understand what has been said, “what did they say?”. Then a few months later clear words are being said with full sentences and thoughtful questions being asked along with the persistent why question. Change! Many of you have gone through a season of change that has brought you to Royal Park and The Royal Atrium Inn for your home. This has involved perhaps leaving a home you have spent decades enjoying and that is filled with many wonderful memories. Perhaps you have had to disperse many items which are now excess for your present needs. Some have traveled to Zeeland after living in other places for many years and have left behind friends, church
they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them
and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
The writer of this passage is very clear, the earth and the heavens and all encompassed in it will wear out and change. But God will remain the same forever. So, we can take comfort and hope in these unchanging facts. God’s love for us and salvation given to us by Jesus and our faith in Him. Unchanging!. John 3:16 God’s promise that he will not leave us or forsake us. Deuteronomy 31:6 Unchanging! God’s promise that He is preparing a place for us in heaven because of Christ’s work on the cross and our faith in Christ. John 14:2 Unchanging! Please find comfort, hope, and joy in this changing world that there is something that will never
change. Our God. Chaplain Doug
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