LIVE

Most of us are comfortable with what we know, we trust what we are familiar with and that is what makes embracing change so hard. We want to be in control and be able to maintain it at all costs. When things change we go into a frenzy because it forces us to forge into the unknown. Where we feel helpless and despondent because with change comes the loss of what is comfortable and familiar. Change is the only constant they say which means it's the only thing we can be guaranteed to always be present in our lives.

Some changes are self-imposed, we consciously seek them while some changes occur without our input and those are the ones we struggle with the most. When what we want to hold on to slips our fingers and life as we know it becomes a distant memory. When suddenly all you knew to be true becomes a lie and you look at your life and don't even know how you got there. Then instead of embracing the changes that are, you want to do everything in your power to go back to how it used to be.

Life shows us the perfect example of change in the 4 seasons that we experience every year.  The summer days that we enjoy, the autumn when all is brown and dull and the leaves fall, the winter that has us hiding in our homes trying to keep warm which eventually paves the way for spring when flowers bloom and life becomes the beauty we know it to be.  What all this teaches us is that each season has its characteristics and each one makes way for the next season. No matter how hot it gets, you are assured of the cooling that comes with autumn and no matter how cold it gets in winter, you know that spring will make its way again.

Change is like those 4 seasons of life, with each change paving the way to your next phase of life. There is little you can do to speed up the process, little you can do to stop to the changes. Your only option is in embracing the change and holding on till the next phase if the one you are in now is the not a desirable phase. When times are good you know that bad is always lurking around waiting to make its entrance, the same way when things are bad you should know that good is waiting to honour you with its presence.

Without change we are simply standing still, rotating around the same areas of our lives without growth. Times need to change so that we grow, we need to lose ourselves in the chaos of what is in order to find ourselves or recreate ourselves. Change is an opportunity to learn, about who we are and about life. Change is an opportunity to see beyond what is comfortable and familiar. When you are trying to hold on to what you know, you never learn about all that you can be and all that life can offer. And sometimes when the initial storm of change has passed, you learn to see life with a complete set of new eyes. And maybe even see that what you were content with wasn't even a fraction of what you could have.

Because we are not always brave enough to make changes, life will sometimes impose them on us. It's in those moments when you feel lost and confused that you should make the decision to live. To trust that a greater Being exists in the Universe, who is always working things out for your good. It's in fearlessly forging into the unknown that you discover all that life could be. Something you will never experience by holding on to only what you know and fighting against change. Life can only be lived by being flexible and by sometimes allow the winds of change to lead you where God wants you to be.