What is newness?
To me in this season it smells like bergamot, my new favorite scent, and Summer’s wet air. It smells like water on side walks and newly green leaves.
It looks like sun on the water and on pale winter skin. It looks like afternoon dreary clouds and cold rain drops that send you inside to ponder. It looks like pondering a while and making sure I am encountering this new season with a new humility, recognizing God as my heart’s companion/reason/solace in a way that is totally new to me.
Newness can feel like peace, but sometimes it can feel like a shaky wind rattling a tiny sapling.
It can be sudden, and at the same time a long-awaited culmination of hard work, hope, and moments of doubt.
Newness clears a path for more things to be made new. Have you ever noticed that?
You can see the newness creating ripples in the pond, restructuring the old, changing what used to be from the inside out, making all things in your life new.
This newness, this cycle of life, it feels a lot like new breath being breathed into my tiny frame and everything that surrounds it. It feels like those moments when you are suddenly aware of your heart and how it is thud-thudding in that cavity of flesh and bone, and you realize you’ve never really noticed it. It feels like when you see something you’ve never seen before on a walk you’ve trod one thousand times. It is that excited spark of discovery. It can also be deep healing, a new heart formed from fragments of the old broken one you carried around in that chest of yours for so long.
Newness, I am convinced, is the heart beat of our God, who after a time of long waiting suddenly made all things new in one day.
I am convinced that the dawn of change that I have feared for so long is really an invitation to run to the beat of our God’s heart in this race of life.
His heart beats newness. He is only ever creating new things.
Mercy
Creation
New Life
New Love
A Change of Seasons
A Change in Life’s Seasons
A Discovery of Self or Soul
A Discovery of the Other
Discovering More of God
A New Friend
A Calling to a New Role
Waking to a New Day
A Call to Healing
Conversion
Reconciling
Movement/Moving
Aging
Dying
Our God calls us to rest in His Nature. I am discovering that it means to walk boldly into newness, for I am now convinced that in doing so we will be dwelling in the very essence of our God.
“See, I make all things new.”
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