my metathesis

You know how sometimes, certian words have a tendency to hold more weight? they just kind of stick out more in your mind? Here lately, the word "new" has had, for some reason, an unusual amount of pull on my brain.

today I think I heard the final chapter of the "new" sermon series in my life that I've been catching peice by piece, in random conversations and situations. I went to a luncheon with my mom today, and the speaker touched breifly on the term "metathesis". It's like something just clicked. and so much unraveled in my mind.

Sometimes words are so much more than letters put together in a certain order. Words can trigger subconscious emotions, burried thoughts. Words can embody the uncontainable, release the imprisoned. Hearing one certain word can complete the puzzle of a vision in your mind, and then bam! suddenly something huge -some incomplete thought- suddely becomes clear and complete. The world slows down to match the beat of your drum, if only for a moment. and every star in the sky shines perfectly in its place.

I feel like I have had a metathesis. My mind simply does not operate the same way. My heart has a slightly different rhythm. My soul is the same (of course), but the window has changed... I am looking through a new window. I have changed.

Everyone changes. Through wind, rain, sunshine, and snow, the pressures of this life leave their traces. What we allow to be on the surface of us will shift and adapt, go through damage and repair the most. but I do believe that the core of someone will always remain the same. You can't base your discernment, expectation, or love for a person on anything other than that core. Futhermore, no soul can find a true counterpart by simply glancing at the embellishment of another soul. You have to see the very core.

I'm not afraid of change. Change is only natural, only human. God never changes! so who better to control changes in my life than the one who is unchanging?


"every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17

"Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland." Isaiah 43:18-19

He makes all things NEW.