Change

[majestyjo]

October 24

Each Day a New Beginning

The universal human yearning [is] for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change. --Willa Cather

The specter of change builds dread in most of us. We fear the effects on our personal lives. We lack faith that the impending change will benefit us. Only time can assure us of that. And it will, just as every change we've survived up to now has done.

Changes are gifts, really. They come as hallmarks to our present attainments. They signify successful growth. How we struggle to understand this, and how quickly we forget it once we have adapted to the change. The struggle is then repeated the next time change visits us.

We long for permanence, believing it guarantees security, not realizing the only real security available to us comes with our trust in God, from whom all change comes as a blessing on the growth we've attained. If we were to experience total lack of change, we'd find death. Life is challenge, continued change, always endurable and growth-enhancing. We can reflect on what's gone before, and trust that which faces us now.

Change means I am progressing, on course.

I embrace change today.  Going back to where I came from is not an option.  In order to have a new way of life, I had to change the thinking that kept me locked in my fear.

[caressa222]

As the saying goes, "Nothing changes, if nothing changes." I was told to do the exact opposite of what I was thinking. My best thinking got me to the doors of AA. I had one reason to go to AA, my denial, one reason to go to NA, identification - I always knew I was an addict, and 3-33 reasons to be in Al-Anon. It helped me to get a better perception of my disease.