Chloe's Big Comfy Couch

This couch probably doesn't look like much to you. But to a four year old girl it means everything.

My family is moving to a new house in the next couple of weeks. The house we live in now is the only home that my daughters have known. We aren't moving far (just about thirty yards).

My girls have been excited about the move. They have had little sentimentality about switching addresses. Maybe a few questions, but nothing that wasn't reassured away with a promise of a better home being built by their grandfather.

That is until someone came to look at the couch.

The couch doesn't match our new home's decor. (Nice manly word, isn't it?) And we are ready for some new furniture. So we are selling it.

Chloe had a total meltdown when she heard that someone was coming to take a look at the furniture. Like a crying, all out snotting, fall in the floor and scream for mercy moment. Her heart was broken.  She wanted to take the couch with us.

Parents hate these moments.

Even the promise of something better didn't soothe her pain.

This couch has been the one place she has sat every night watching her favorite Disney shows. Countless movie nights with bowls of popcorn have been shared here. When the girls are sick, they always want to sleep on the couch with mom or dad. (And if you know my girls, someone is always sick.) This is where they were cuddled to sleep almost every night for the first year of their lives. We have shared our lives together on that couch for the last six years.

In her disappointment, she can't process the change right now. She hasn't experienced that "something better" yet. So she's left dreading the future.

That's how it is with life.

How many times have you clung to something old and worn out, because you were afraid of change? You were told that you were going to experience something better, but you couldn't envision what it would feel like. And quite frankly, you prefer the old and known more than the new and unknown.

People do not like change. We like comfortable. But there is a problem clinging to comfortable. When it is old and worn out, we miss out on opportunities that bring better things.

Question:
What is old and worn out in your life that you need to get rid of?