frozen pens

ok, so i have determined how one can tell if wintery weather has officially come. if you are waiting outside and only in a matter of minutes, the ink in your pen freezes, you know winter has officially come.

so with installation of a new season, i feel it right to discuss change. more specifically changing habits. why is it so hard to change something that we do or something we experience habitually? why are humans 'creatures of habit'? you always here that term, but don't really experience the difficulty of that term until we have to face the absence of it.

take for instance a presidential address. no matter what the subject is, no matter how interested you are to hear what the president has to say, if it is on during one of your favorite shows, you are frustrated beyond belief. i am dorky enough that i relive that feeling every time i watch the Friends finale. i just experience this un-normal sadness that it has to end. even though the dang show hasn't been on for like 4 or 5 years now, i still get that same feeling watching it.

we don't want the good things to end. we want the things that makes us feel at home, to keep us comfortable. i believe God created us not only with the capability to become attached to those good things, but actually created us with the propensity for it. to the chagrin of some people, God does not desire for our lives to be full of unhappiness, rules and regulations. Jesus' life exemplifies this. how many parties was Jesus described at being at, how many times is He caught near the sea, or even just spending time with His friends (the disciples)? rarely do you hear Him being upset and even disgruntled (temple scene, stupid pharisees, bad Peter). if we are to follow Christ's example, we must not just follow what He does, but how He does it.

so next time when you change into a season that freezes your pens (not literally of course) (well, maybe for weather too), but notice how you react to it. what speaks more loudly, someone who grumbles/complains about difficulties, or someone who actually welcomes it.

ok that's enough, time for a funny picture: