Constant Change

Everything about our life is constantly changing.  It is not an awareness that we carry with us on our sleeve.  What we like to think is that things are normal which we often translate into much the same today as yesterday, but such is never true.  From the moment of conception, life is always moving in the direction of changing.  Not seeing it happen does not change the reality of the changing until some unforeseen and unanticipated event comes crashing down upon us creating a crisis which causes us to confront the changing pattern of our own life.   

Those things which put change on fast forward bear many names.  It might be the sudden loss of a job, or finally coming to the day of retirement.  It may be the diagnosis of a a life threatening disease, or the death of someone we love. It may be marriage, or the birth of a child.  Some of the change agents in our life are life affirming and some are life threatening, but regardless, they still come to us in such a way that ignoring their impact on our life is an impossibility.    

One of the things we search for in this life of such uncertainty is a constant.  Deep within us is a desire for permanence.  We want some connection to something or someone that cannot be broken and which gives our life a purpose that is unaffected by the external changing circumstances of life.  When we were conceived and created, we were marked with the essence of the Creator.  When we lose sight of this basic and primary connection, we find ourselves dealing with the turbulent life changing powers as a boat without a rudder.  Christ has come in our midst to lead us back to the place where we belong.  As we connect with Him through faith, we find the way to the life we were created to know from the very beginning.