Adapting to Change

Have you ever  felt like you were in a gray area in you life where nothing was happening?  Most would say absolutely!  When change occurs we tend to get defensive in different ways.  Maybe they have added another duty to your already list of 20 that you have to take care of at work  The change could be about anything. (kids, job, spouse, church, death etc.)  No change can occur without going through a psychological process.  If  I choose to make a change in my life than I have to know in my heart that the event I want to change cannot continue as it is now.  Grief workers say that it takes a year to process  the death of someone.  Makes since,  you have to go through the motions of  reforming your family events without your loved one.  We as humans will choose to resist that change.    Let's say you and your spouse or loved one called it quits recently.  Same process, you are experiencing a loss.  We have no choice other than to deal with the change and work on accepting that change will always be a part of us. We have to get good at change, it's always going to occur!  While moving through change you will go through three phases.  Phase 1- You change what you are doing, Phase 2- neutral phase and nothing's happening, Phase 3-  A new beginning.  Phase 2- is probably the most difficult but rewarding phase.  You get to do anything,  all bets are off in this phase.  You get to choose a new path to take.  We all know what to do....the thought is in our head. When the time is right  there will be a new beginning.  Then it will be time to change again!   I once listened to a man speak that defined change by seasons.  In the winter the plants, trees and flowers die.  In the Spring everything blossoms and we have a new beginning. We celebrate Easter in the Spring as well and that is symbolic for a new beginning (birth of Christ)..  When we are experiencing hard times we usually choose to go towards the quickest fix.  Quick fixes are seldom meaningful, meaningful requires continued effort.  Choose to take a path of  FAITH when making a change.   Heb 11:1 states that " Faith means that we have full confidence in the things we hope for, it means being certain of things we cannot see.  So I leave you with this....If you have to go through change why not do it with God in your life?  The road will be so much smoother.  Try it!