Hard Changes

There is much difficulty in change. It is hard for us, we find familiarity to be comforting, even when it is destructive and toxic. We take comfort in the known, ease in the predictable, and joy in the predictable paths. Ritual, tradition, habit… these are all part of the problem when we begin to address fundamental changes in our lives. How many diets, new goals, jobs, friendships and even marriages and families have been destroyed by a basic inability to leave behind that which was before? What we have "always known" is often so much more attractive than the unknown mystery which lies just around the corner. But the old is not always the best and the past is usually best left there… God calls us daily to dwell with our eyes on the future and steadfastly trust in that which He has prepared. And no place is that more apparent than when we consider our religious practices.