Change is inevitable.  We can meet it with resistance and risk breaking ourselves, or we can accept it with the resolve to learn and grow.

I remember my mother telling me that if I didn’t learn to bend, I would break.  I don’t think she was suggesting that I compromise my character.  

I think she was trying to help me to see that I couldn’t control everything, I wasn’t in charge,  Things can and will change, I wouldn’t always like it, but I was in charge of how I responded to it and how I allowed it to impact my attitude and outlook.  

I am still not a big fan of surprises and still appreciate routines, but I have learned to be less rigid and to move through transitions more gracefully – to grow and to embrace changes when they come.

How do we deal with the inevitability of change?  

We grow.  

We learn. 

We keep going.

I know that we are all going through something beyond our control.  We may not have asked for, expected, or ordered what is confronting us, but we get to choose how we respond.  In my mother’s words, ‘bend, don’t break…’ Time and chance happen to us all!  (Eccl. 9:11)

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam