Life is filled with lots of twists, turns, and pivots along the way. We are always being prepared for something. Do you find yourself sensing change is coming? Are you in a season of transition? Do you feel like you are being asked to pivot? You are not alone. I am transitioning as we speak and some of the pivots I've had to take the last few months have been intense, challenging, and yet beautiful.
Transition is going to happen. When it does, it will require us to surrender and let go of some things so that we can fully step into the new season and receive all that God has for us.
Do you need some encouragement and reminders as you let go of one season and transition into a new one? I hope you will join me. Please share this with anyone you know who needs encouragement
Transcript Notes:
Hello, and welcome back to the Get Well, Live Well, and Thrive podcasts. My name is Dana Lyons, and I'm your host, and today I want to talk about transitions and pivots. That's right, transitions and pivots. You know why? I am in one of them, and so I want to talk to others who are in them, and if you're not in one, just remember this episode. You'll come back to listen to it again, because you know why? At some point you're going to go through one, because in life we go through many transitions with many pivots. See, there's all different kinds of transitions in life, right? You go from transitioning from, well, your mother's womb to the world. We go from life to death. We go from like childhood to adulthood. We go from, you know, teenage to adult. We go from being single to married. We go from school to having to get a job. We sometimes have transitions in our health. We have transitions where we live. I mean, there's all kinds of transitions. Marrieds to divorced or married to widowhood. Single to married. I mean, there's all kinds of transitions. Even Jesus went through a transition, and he went through more than one. He went from heaven, and he came here to earth, right? What a transition. He went from, you know, earth back to heaven. He went from earth to the grave. He went from, you know, growing up under his parents and learning, to then he was transitioning. He was baptized and went to the wilderness. Transition, period of time, to another season or a moment in time, and then he came out of that wilderness and transitioned or came out and turned and came back out and went, you know, into his ministry. I mean, there's just transitions all over the place. Some are easy. We just transition from one thing to the next. We could transition from, you know, one day to the next by going to sleep and waking up. There's an easy transition. So transitions are everywhere. Sometimes we, and then in those transitions, there are pivots along the way. What do I mean by that? The word pivot means to turn, to make a sharp turn or to turn a different way. I mean, you know, how many of you have found yourself in a place where you're like, wow, how the heck did I end up here? Or maybe you went through a transition and you're like, wow, I didn't think I'd ever be doing this, or I didn't think that I'd end up here, or I didn't see this coming. But life is filled with these transitions and these pivots. And we could transition, you know, we're, we are all going to go through transitions and we're all going to have pivots. And the question is, will we be open and willing to transition well? You know, I've gone through some transitions and changes in my life where I've kicked and screamed and I started that next season really rocky. It could have went smoother. I've gone into some transitions where I was grieving and in a ton of pain, which meant the beginning of the next season didn't start out so positive. It was rough. So we all have these different transitions. You have your own. Even spiritually, we have a transition,
