Thoughts on Change

What is change really? Why is it that change is always considered to be such a bad thing? Why is it so hard to do? You see society defines change as “to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone”(dictionary.com)
However, more times than not society treats change as something that is a last resort that it is something that we should avoid. We scream from the mountain tops that change is what we want and what we need but as soon as the change begins to happen we all dread and complain that it is no longer the same? Why is that? Why is it that we cannot face the consequences of what change is? Why is it near impossible to realize how change can be a positive thing? Never once did the definition say that change was easy and that change is instantaneous and quick.
You see, I am one of those people! I am the one that complains that something needs to change; that something needs to be different. However, when the changes occur I find every reason to doubt it and to find the negatives in it. Now it is going to sound ironic to those who choose to read this but really I am trying to change. For about the past year or so I have been going to therapy. I have been trying to change how I view the everyday occurrences in my life that seem to cause me a wide range of emotions. I have been learning how to change not only how I react to these episodes in person but how I let these events dictate my life. I used to let everything be blamed on me, I used to never defend myself. That is how it always was, it was just easier to take on the problems, issues, and stresses then to defend myself and express how these things made me feel. I CHANGED!
I still fight the change sometimes but don’t we all. I can honestly say that life still throws me curve balls, and that life is not always fair but I can also say that honestly I have never felt more confident in who I am and who I want to be. I used to not want to change anything about me, about my relationships, about my personality but now I realize that changing me to improve myself is not a negative thing. It is difficult to realize what it is about you that has to change or to realize traits in your relationships need to be altered. But these changes lead to strength, unity, and confidence that the world can be better. I realize that I can be a better person and that by me initiating change I really can make a difference in this world that claims things need to be made different. I can make the difference, I can make the change.
My challenge to you is to not fear the challenge of change but to embrace what it is and what its impact on you, your relationships and community could be! Thanks for reading. I hope that you enjoyed my rant about change. Tune in next week!

Philippians 3:21

New International Version (NIV)

²¹ who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.