Change Is Inevitable

Most people will tell you they don’t like change. Who does? It’s scary!

We become comfortable in our day to day routines and how dare anyone try to disturb that!

Well, life will disturb your “comfort zone” when you least expect it!

That could mean you’ve been married 15 years and now you’re facing divorce, it could mean you’ve had a friendship with someone and that unbreakable bond collapsed for whatever reason, or it could mean a job you’ve been at for a while suddenly changes course.

A lot of times, we don’t have control over these changes. It’s normally another person’s decision that affects us in the long run. And we didn’t ask for it!

Or maybe it’s that we don’t have a choice but to accept that change has to happen.

Either way, it can be uncomfortable but change is good!

Here’s why I say that:

We can become so comfortable that we stop growing if change doesn’t occur. If you think back to any changes in your life, I would bet that you look at yourself now and see a much stronger, more confident person staring back at you in the mirror.

I’m not saying that flippantly without having any experience because once upon a time, I was married for 15 years. I never saw a divorce coming…but because it wasn’t my decision and divorce was inevitable, I had to adjust my life to fit the new bigger picture that I was handed. That picture wasn’t handed to me in a gorgeous custom made frame by any means. But, over time I ended up framing my life to be more beautiful than I thought it could be.

Life does not stop because change happens.

Change can cause us to grow into better, happier, and more successful individuals.

How do you handle change?

Here are my thoughts and I challenge you to reflect on these any time you face a major change in your life:

Embrace change with a childlike curiosity of what is yet to come. Tell yourself, because self-talk is important, that whatever change you are facing may seem scary but something awesome can come from this shift in your life.

Recognize that you may find greater things on the other side of what “once was”.

Growth as a person will happen during this change. What’s the saying? Without change there would be no butterflies…and oh, how beautiful they are. But for awhile they are cramped in a tight cocoon but in this cocoon they are only in a temporary stage of change before they sprout wings and FLY!

And finally, but most importantly, God has a plan for our lives. This, I truly believe. Whatever happens in life is meant to be…and we may not see it right away. Things happen and we may end up in a dark place for awhile (I don’t think that cocoon gets much light either) but because I’ve been through major changes in my lifetime, what I thought could be the worst thing that could happen turned out to usher in something far greater. Whether that’s a new friendship that came after a broken one, or a new relationship after a painful divorce, or even a career change that you didn’t expect would happen, all of these things have positivity just on the other side of what you may have thought was disaster.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”
Jeremiah 29:11