Out with the old, in with the new

We have started the remodel of our master bathroom. The old one has served us well for 34 years with a few cosmetic changes along the way. Our new one will meet our needs perfectly as we age.
I can't help but see an analogy here.
On Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. the familiar, previously satisfactory bathroom still existed. By 3:00 p.m. that bathroom was a demolished mess of hanging wallboard and gaping spaces where the toilet and cabinets had been. Today, Thursday, there is still a gaping space where the previous bathroom existed but the site is clean, defined, rid of what had previously served us well and ready for the new additions that will serve us even better for what will hopefully be a very long time.
On October 5 of 2012 my familiar, previously satisfactory body still existed. It had served me well for 73 years, with no cosmetic changes along the way (well....maybe acrylic nails and a little help in the hair color department!). By the evening of that day the remodeling of my no longer satisfactory body had begun. And today, thanks to radiation and chemotherapy, my body is being changed into one that will serve me well for what will, hopefully, be a very long time.
I'm sure that if the walls of my bathroom could speak they would tell me that the process of demolition was not comfortable, nor was it pleasant, and I would fully understand. My "demolition" has been neither pleasant nor has it been comfortable. But the "new" bathroom will be both beautiful and functional, as will be my "new" body when this demolition of cancer cells is complete. What a praise!
So, it's out with the old and in with the new! Today is a new day and I will continue to praise and thank my Lord and Savior as my remodel continues on its way to completion.

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and a way in the desert."-Isaiah 43:18,19 (ESV).

"........The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."-2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV).

"For I know what I have planned for you, says The Lord. I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope."-Jeremiah 29:11 (NET).