870 A Changed Trajectory

What always has been in your life and family, does not always have to be. There are two constants: Change and God. God always has been and always will be. That will never change, He is constant. However, every other thing will change. Life is continually changing, flowing and growing, turning and shifting. What you have today you will not always have, and what you lack today will one day be fulfilled. And God will be Lord over it all. The waves may be tossing you around, but it is God that controls the current. I come from a long line of good cooks. We can basically put bacon grease on everything and make it delicious. I also come from generations of hard working women that could get crap done. My great-grandma owned and ran the country store like Mrs. Olson on Little House on the Prairie. My grandma was a single mother of 3 girls born all in a row, less than 1 year between each. She worked full time while managing a farm all on her own. She woke up, milked the cow, gathered the eggs, made breakfast, got the kids ready for school, worked a full day, then came home to kill, pluck and cook that chicken and hand wash laundry to hang out on the line. My mama worked in a factory making shoes and was the janitor at a school. My people know how to work. That was passed down to me. You know what else was passed down to me … a slow metabolism, a love of carbs and a long line of being overweight. My people don’t wear swimsuits. My people sit it out because we’re too heavy. My people dress to cover. My people accept it as their lot in life to always be unhealthy. But you know what my God says? He says I AM A NEW CREATION! He says just because it’s always been this way in my family, doesn’t mean it has to continue with me. My God says he has given me the awareness and the power to change things for every generation after me. My God says he is doing something new, and it starts with me. What do you come from? Do you come from generations of brokenness? Do you come from a family history of struggle and strongholds? Have the marriages in your family always ended in disaster? Have addictions been passed down as an inheritance? Do you worry because your Mama taught you to worry? Are you a yeller because yelling is the only volume you know when things aren’t going right? Are you repeating the exact cycle you hated growing up in? Have you accepted it as normal because it’s all you know? 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” If everything other than God is guaranteed to change, then why can’t you get in agreement that you can change too? You are not who you used to be, nor are you obligated to repeat the cycles you come from. You are here in this time and place in history to break some cycles, demolish some strongholds, and impact future generations as the buck stops with you. What needs to just STOP with you? It can. God has made you a new creation so this other stuff doesn’t have to continue for your children and grand children. When you know better, you can do better. Here you are now knowing better than those before you knew, so rise up and stop what isn’t serving a good purpose now. I may have inherited a slow metabolism, but I now understand I have the ability to impact that. There are things I CAN do, and darn it, it’s up to me to live this life the best I can. I have a responsibility to take what I’ve been given and do the best I can do with it. I don’t have time to be unhealthy and sluggish. Shrinking back, playing little, and trying to hide my body just doesn’t have a place in this BIG Life I was created for. I get to take what God has given me, claim it, and use it. SO DO YOU! You may come from brokenness, but God has called you to be the new strong link which creates a new normal fo...