The story...
I liked the motorcycle I owned; yet, planned to sell it to buy another. Surely, I justified the change - size, ABS safety, travel further, and reliability too. Yet, I missed the nimbleness, maneuvering ease, and efficiency too - it's was a good friend and companion.
Why didn't I keep it? Keeping meant more: maintenance, storage space, insurance cost, and time wasted caring for things. No, I said goodbye to the old and hello to the new.
How do we know when a thing, group, or way of living has run its course? Is it wise to reduce the bias that we have for keeping things just as they are? Surely there're reasons for why things are the way they are and it'd be foolish not to consider their past, current, and potential value; yet, change is good.
Why not try out a new behavior pattern? Change experiences may be as simple as: driving home a different way; eating a different kind of food; or attending an event with different people, ideas, hobbies, or ways of being. Change has been good for my life walk and character - being ready to roll with change has helped.
People, ministries, buildings, job descriptions and worship practices will come and go within the only church in town. Yet one day, everybody will take their final breath - "goodbye." Then, they'll say hello to eternity - our real home. Oh..., to be found in Christ and loved by God. Heaven doesn't wait.
Just for today...
"If I don't get too attached to any one way to approach life, I adjust to change with a lot less stress and strain . . . As a friend says: 'We don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.'" Courage to Change (p. 147)
"That's my place; I like that - Like the same; Life seems flat."
"Open my heart; I meet you - We try stuff; Live anew." Am I a Poet?
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