Thursday, November 5, 2026
Hello from Colorado!
I think people who are growing are forever evolving.
That doesn’t mean we wake up one morning and become somebody completely different. Most of the time, the changes happen slowly. We learn something. We experience something. We make a mistake. We change our minds. We discover that something we once wanted isn’t as important to us anymore.
Little by little, the way we see ourselves and the world around us begins to change.
That’s a lot like sewing.
A garment can start out one way and become something else with a little imagination. Sometimes all it needs is a different hem, a new sleeve, a change in the neckline, or maybe a completely different way of putting the pieces together.
The fabric is still the fabric.
But the garment has been refashioned.
I think we can do the same thing with our lives.
There are parts of ourselves we may want to leave behind. There are also parts we shouldn’t throw away simply because they belong to an earlier chapter. Our experiences have value. The mistakes we made can teach us. The difficult seasons can give us compassion. The things we once thought were failures may eventually become some of the very experiences that help us understand somebody else.
Growing doesn’t require us to erase our history.
It asks us to learn from it.
I’ve changed over the years. I’m sure you have too. Some of those changes came because I wanted them, and some came because life gave me no choice. Either way, I had to decide what I was going to do with the woman standing in front of me.
I could keep trying to fit myself into an old version of who I was, or I could accept that I was still becoming.
That’s where I think faith becomes important.
God doesn’t need us to remain exactly as we were yesterday. He can work with the person we are today while preparing us for who we’re becoming tomorrow.
Sometimes that growth can feel uncomfortable. We may miss the person we used to be because at least we knew her. The new version of ourselves may still be under construction.
But perhaps that’s okay.
A garment doesn’t become something new because the original fabric was worthless. It becomes something new because someone saw another possibility in it.
Maybe we need to look at ourselves with that same kind of patience.
What can I learn from where I’ve been?
What needs to change?
What should I keep?
What am I ready to let go of?
Those aren’t always easy questions, but they are healthy ones.
I’m beginning to believe that being refashioned isn’t about becoming somebody else.
It’s about becoming more fully who God created us to be.
And maybe that is another stitch from Heaven.
Scripture for Today
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)*
I don’t think becoming new means forgetting everything that came before us. It means allowing God to do something new with the life we’ve been given.
The fabric may be familiar.
The design can still change.
See you tomorrow for another 15 minutes with God and a stitch from Heaven.
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