Changes

I seem to have a difficulty writing a blog lately. Some due to travel, some due to lack of inspiration, some just not sure of myself. This morning I thought I'd write about the place I used to live near Arlington WA.  I lived there for about 15 years, but that was 24 years ago when I moved away from there. I used to drive up McElroy Rd to the Burn Rd into Arlington but I couldn't remember how I got to the downtown area. Everything seems to have changed. More homes along the route to Arlington, but I don't remember much of it. My home place was so different, and the house was still there and the shed / pump house that I built was still pretty much the same just a different color. The rock wall I built in the front yard was gone and I wondered what he did with all that rock. I remember faintly the route to town. The place we called hillbilly hill had a gate across it. The lake at Burn road and the house by the lake was still there, but I couldn't tell you if it had changed or how it had changed. The whole area had changed drastically. I wondered how I had changed in those 24 years? Had there been a dramatic change in my life as well? I remember thinking how I liked that home on 5 acres so much. When I bought it and had a house build, I envisioned, I would live there for the rest of my life. My life did change also. I went through divorce, I changed my job at my place of employment. Relationships came and went. I moved many times since then. Have I improved the landscape of my life? Have I built into my heart the things found in Colossians 3?  Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:12-15. Has the landscape of my heart changed as this scripture and other scriptures tell us how to live in this world? Do I have a compassionate heart? Am I kind? Am I humble? Am I meek? Am I patient? Do I live a life of forgiveness? How is my love? Do I let the peace of Christ rule in my heart? Am I thankful? How has the landscape of my heart changed in those same 24 years. Is it better than it was? Yes my physical address has changed many times. Above all have I put on love? Am I more loving and kind and patient than I used to be. Sometimes when I am driving and I get behind a car that is driving to slow for me I wonder. I really am not in that big of a hurry to get someplace but I may be saying get out of my way. Have I changed like I need to change? God help me to be like thee. God bless, LVZ.