Who Moved My Cheese?
Last night Jason was thumbing through Caroline's Venture notebook and happened upon a gem....and we learned a little more about our Sunshine.
Apparently, Who Moved My Cheese? (Jason read the adult version in one of his graduate classes) gives kids a way to look at change positively and how they can adapt to, create new, and find ways to walk through change in their lives.
Caroline's class worked through this book and then had a worksheet to fill out, which we found last night. When you read below, the statements and questions posed by the worksheet equate cheese with change or something for Caroline to relate to her in her life. Caroline then answered each with something in her life that equates to the change or emotion presented.
1. Having cheese makes me happy.
Caroline: reading
2. What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Caroline: soccer (insert Mommy's tears that this is something she is intimidated by)
3. When you stop being afraid, you feel good.
Caroline: first time riding a horse
4. The sooner you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
Caroline: stick horse (Teddy) broke
5. Imagining your new cheese helps you find it!
Caroline: horse camp
6. Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
Caroline: eat new foods (insert Mommy's happiness)
7. Move to the new cheese and enjoy it!
Caroline: horse camp Y or N
Its a little difficult to understand if you haven't read the book but Jason and I learned of Caroline's openness to change, her desire to experience change, her natural tendency to shy away from change and her recurring ability to relate many of the challenges and changes in her life to her great love of horses.
So many times we know change needs to happen...its out there, hovering above us, imminent and yet we fight it desperately. Afraid to move to the next step or move away from something familiar and comfortable keeps us paralyzed and fearful of change all too often. Sometimes moving out of our comfort zone, into the unknown, is just where the Lord wants us so we can rely FULLY on Him. So we can find our security FULLY in Him. So we can find our identity FULLY in Him. So we can find our comfort FULLY in Him.
Over the last year or so Jason and I have felt something BIG hovering above us. We don't know what, when, where or why this BIG is, but we are ever in the process of opening our hearts, preparing our minds, and trying to move out of the way for change...whatever it may look like and whatever form it may come in. We are ever in the process of learning to rely FULLY on Him, bask in our security in Him, find no identity other than what we have in Him and find our full comfort in Him.
Apparently, Who Moved My Cheese? (Jason read the adult version in one of his graduate classes) gives kids a way to look at change positively and how they can adapt to, create new, and find ways to walk through change in their lives.
Caroline's class worked through this book and then had a worksheet to fill out, which we found last night. When you read below, the statements and questions posed by the worksheet equate cheese with change or something for Caroline to relate to her in her life. Caroline then answered each with something in her life that equates to the change or emotion presented.
1. Having cheese makes me happy.
Caroline: reading
2. What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Caroline: soccer (insert Mommy's tears that this is something she is intimidated by)
3. When you stop being afraid, you feel good.
Caroline: first time riding a horse
4. The sooner you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
Caroline: stick horse (Teddy) broke
5. Imagining your new cheese helps you find it!
Caroline: horse camp
6. Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.
Caroline: eat new foods (insert Mommy's happiness)
7. Move to the new cheese and enjoy it!
Caroline: horse camp Y or N
So many times we know change needs to happen...its out there, hovering above us, imminent and yet we fight it desperately. Afraid to move to the next step or move away from something familiar and comfortable keeps us paralyzed and fearful of change all too often. Sometimes moving out of our comfort zone, into the unknown, is just where the Lord wants us so we can rely FULLY on Him. So we can find our security FULLY in Him. So we can find our identity FULLY in Him. So we can find our comfort FULLY in Him.
Over the last year or so Jason and I have felt something BIG hovering above us. We don't know what, when, where or why this BIG is, but we are ever in the process of opening our hearts, preparing our minds, and trying to move out of the way for change...whatever it may look like and whatever form it may come in. We are ever in the process of learning to rely FULLY on Him, bask in our security in Him, find no identity other than what we have in Him and find our full comfort in Him.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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