Blessed TGIF to Family and Friends!
Have you noticed how easy it is to get comfortable and feel secure with life’s routines, plans and schedules? They offer a certain predictable rhythm in daily living. But LIFE is not that way at all. Life is a process of ebb and flow, give and take, change and rest, joy and sorrow, up and down.
Perhaps the Divine Artisan deliberately fashioned the creation with this unpredictable movement, change and process. Otherwise, humans might seemingly “know” or take hold of not only of creation but also the Creator as “known”, grasped, exhausted.
All of life, like the Master Designer, has contained within itself MYSTERY – the ineffable, the inexhaustible, the unspeakable, the uncontainable. This virtual dimension makes life and living a thrill for some and a curse for others.
What is clear, regardless of your ‘take on life,’ interpretation of events, is that all life is changing.
Without the ability, agility and flexibility to change, people “crack”, species of animals disappear from the earth, and steel buildings collapse. Resistance to change, like a skyscraper unwavering to high winds, results in disaster. For most of us over the past 10 years, change is an operative principle, a way of life, a given in daily care.
The Mystery of life also suggests that change is necessary for growth. In change the process of becoming is fostered and new beginnings occur. The caution to all of us is ‘don’t resist change;
flow with the process.’
This delightful story makes the point for flexibility.
Have you noticed how easy it is to get comfortable and feel secure with life’s routines, plans and schedules? They offer a certain predictable rhythm in daily living. But LIFE is not that way at all. Life is a process of ebb and flow, give and take, change and rest, joy and sorrow, up and down.
Perhaps the Divine Artisan deliberately fashioned the creation with this unpredictable movement, change and process. Otherwise, humans might seemingly “know” or take hold of not only of creation but also the Creator as “known”, grasped, exhausted.
All of life, like the Master Designer, has contained within itself MYSTERY – the ineffable, the inexhaustible, the unspeakable, the uncontainable. This virtual dimension makes life and living a thrill for some and a curse for others.
What is clear, regardless of your ‘take on life,’ interpretation of events, is that all life is changing.
Without the ability, agility and flexibility to change, people “crack”, species of animals disappear from the earth, and steel buildings collapse. Resistance to change, like a skyscraper unwavering to high winds, results in disaster. For most of us over the past 10 years, change is an operative principle, a way of life, a given in daily care.
The Mystery of life also suggests that change is necessary for growth. In change the process of becoming is fostered and new beginnings occur. The caution to all of us is ‘don’t resist change;
flow with the process.’
This delightful story makes the point for flexibility.
A helmsman of a ship underway noticed on the horizon a bright light. He notified the captain, who upon arrival at the bridge, ordered communications to send a message to the oncoming vessel that it should make a “10” degree course change.
Within seconds a return message read: “You make a 10 degree course change.” The captain of the vessel became upset and ordered back: “You make the needed course correction. I am an Admiral of this 6th US Navy Fleet!”
A short courteous reply read: “I’m a 2nd Class Ensign, and I still advise you make the 10 degree change.” That was enough to enrage the Admiral who replied: “I, Sir, am an aircraft carrier and will not alter course.” “ Very well Admiral,” read the Ensign’s response, “I am a lighthouse; safe sailing!”
This is a good lesson for us all; never think, say or believe you can’t change. The consequences are dangerous, for the process of life’s becoming is arrested.
So this TGIF weekend, look back on the many ways you are always changing, adjusting, and even letting go of old ideas, feelings and ‘things’ as you evolve into a better human being. Then live the changes by embracing them with vision, courage and hope.
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