Change

Whats up people! LOVE YALL!!

But hey, I was glancing at this book my uncle is reading, and I came across this page that I wanted to share with you all. Since I am borrowing a passage from the book, I won't come with a quote today. I'll come with one tomorrow. I hope you all are doing well. I haven't forgotten about you all. More info coming tomorrow....


"There are various kinds of transitions that we may encounter on our life journey. Some transitions are inevitable in our human experience, some are probable, and others are possible but perhaps not likely. Birth, adolescense, mid-life, old age, and death are transitions that virtually all humans experience, given an average life span. Graduation from school, marriage, job change, parenthood, and retirement are expalmplesof tranistions that the vas majority of us in our culutre will experience. Divorce and carer changes are tranistiont that were relatively rare 50 years ago yet are becoming increasingly commonplace today. Many, perhaps most of us, will never experience a debilitating accident or illness, a bankruptcy, or a job layoff."

"Indeed, every change is a type of death, a death to an old way of living or being. Yet, ironically, change - a dying tothe old - is one of the defining characteristics of growth. To live is to grow; to grow is to change; to change is to die to the old. Jesus of Nazareth said to his disciples, "Unless a grain of weat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24) . The apostle Paul, who was no stranger to unexpected change, writes to the churc at Corinth, "I die every day!" (1 Cor. 15:31) Many of us today are living in an accelerated patter of growth and change and are, like Paul, "dying daily."

"Yet we fear death, and this very fear of death, the fear of change, is also our fear of life itself. To be fully alive, we must be willing to be changed, to surrender into the moment without resistance; we must be willing to "die daily," even moment by moment. To resist these "deaths" is to resisit life. To live fully is to realize that death - any type of dealth - is but a harbinger of new life. Thus we are ready to take the next step in our study of transition: our study of change, of death, and of rebirth into new life"