Month: May 2020

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COMFORT ZONES

by Chaplain Jon Shonebarger

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there!” Unknown

“Whatever makes you uncomfortable is your biggest opportunity for growth.” Bryant McGill

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.” Ben Franklin

“The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Unknown

“Fail—Learn—Grow” Sylvia Plath

“If you are persistent you will get it. If you are consistent you will keep it.” Unknown

“There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.” Beverly Sills
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There is something very comfortable about comfort zones!!!

The daily routine…plans set in “stone”…no curve balls…no surprises…it’s life on cruise control….auto-pilot. NORMAL 😁

Then change is thrown at us. We naturally do not like change. We object. We fuss. We have rationale on why the change won’t work. We can easily identify a plethora of reasons why we can’t be a part of it…We just plain reject it…

The truth about change is that it is THE catalyst for growth and improvement. Many people want better opportunities and a better way of life, yet they are unwilling to make the investments necessary to facilitate it.

Organizations change. Their entire goal is to grow the organization, to expand, to improve and diversify. In order to grow with the organization, you must grow. Continual education, additional training and certifications, relocation and a different skillset.

We will fail, but we will learn. Then we grow. Then we change.

Life provides us an adventure to experience. There are risks for us to take. This is what should motivate us and get us up in the morning. Let us look for opportunities to be a part of change…to be a change agent! Make yourself more valuable to your career, relationships, faith and interests by being fresh and new, not stale and a dinosaur!

Let us accept the challenge to improve through change. Let’s get out of our comfort zone and get out on the limb where the fruit is…
Let’s turn the page and begin writing a new chapter!

Have a great week and remember, God loves YOU!

Posted by: Jon Shonebarger

I’m just over it all. I understood when we started out on this journey with this virus that the intentions were to flatten the curve, not overwhelm the hospitals and ICU units and to secure PPE for hospitals. I have empathized with the mission and was completely on board in March. Now if you watch the WORLDOMETER the number of deaths in NY have come drastically down from a couple of weeks ago. The states as a whole are doing great!

I am ready to return to normal and see life the way it once was. We are teetering into June already and I think it’s time to return to normal. To be living in fear and to let our rights and freedoms be taken away like they have been is just nonsense.

People’s lives have stopped. Everyday living for example depriving people of companionship from funerals to hospital stays, etc…, grieving people forced to be alone, health problems are on the rise from people not going to the doctors, dentists, having elective surgeries, etc…, birthdays, kids play time, families missing out on each other, the economy collapsing, people being out of work, kids going hungry, kids education stopped, school functions stopped, 4-H stopped, bankruptcies going on, suicides up, drinking up, drugs up, it is just truly so sad to see where we are going. Power hungry governors, I think the craziest one I read lately is that there is a hotline in California to tell on non-essential businesses so the state can cut POWER to the business that is open and deemed unessential. Like really people?! It is time to wake up and smell the hogwash for what it is simply HOGWASH!!!

Locking us up in our homes doesn’t help our immune systems either. Living in a bubble isn’t the answer.

I know we’ll probably have a second wave in the winter months but I think that we are far more prepared now than we were. I think we’ve learned and grown and we are ready for anything that comes our way.

I know people will be offended by my opinion but this is my opinion not fact. Some people just don’t know the difference between fact and opinions.

Oh well these are my feelings on life right now.