There is only one guarantee in life… that it will change. Sometimes on a dime. Sometimes you have no idea what prompted the changes…in circumstances, in relationships, in the world. Other times you have a pretty good understanding but are still powerless to stop it.

I have had a difficult time with change this week. Halloween is coming. Halloween has always been a very special time for me. I met Mr. Virgo on Halloween. That is such a happy memory. And now it’s been ten years since that handsome man walked into my little needlework shop and changed my life forever. This is my third Halloween without him. I’ve reflected a lot on the changes in my life lately. People have come and gone. My life has changed in ways I could never have imagined. Sometimes change is good. Other times, it hurts like hell and there’s not a darned thing you can do about it.

I have been blessed in life with friends who have a much better knowledge of the Bible than me. Yesterday, one shared a verse with me that was quite comforting.

“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

In other words, the mere act of contemplating God with unveiled faces transforms us into His image. He effects change. And not only in us, but TO us. He changes circumstances. I have no idea why He took Mr. Virgo so young. But I DO know why He brought him into my life in the first place. I tell people if I would have had him for just one day, my life would have been richer for it. I got to have him for seven and a half years. Some people never get to experience that kind of love. I understand my blessings. Still, there are times when the enormity of the loss flattens me. I just don’t pitch a tent there anymore.

❤️

“The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.”

Deuteronomy 1:6 NIV