The story...
I like the motorcycle that I currently own yet I'm planning to sell it to buy another. Surely I've justified the change - size, safety with ABS, travel further, and more reliable. Yet, I'll miss the nimbleness, ease of maneuvering, and efficiency - it's been a good friend and companion.
Why not keep it? Keeping means more: maintenance, storage space, insurance cost, and time wasted caring for things. No, I will say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
How do we know when a thing, group, or way of living has run its course? Might we 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.
I've heard that it's healthy to break behavior patterns. For example, drive home a different way or eat a different kind of food. Go to an event where people have different interests, hobbies and ways. Change has been good for my life walk and character - being ready to roll and accepting 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." And, they'll say hello to eternity. 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)
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