Change

It has been a while since I posted. To any who are still checking I ask your forgiveness. It has been a busy few months as we have been in transition here at First UMC. I have many thoughts on life that I could share that come from the past 5 months. But I will share the one that is in my mind at the moment.

Change ... Yesterday I visited my chiropractor for a much needed adjustment. His adjusting tables were turned 180 degrees from where they had been. Without thinking about it I went to the table, and lay on my back. He said you are the first person not to stop with a confused look trying to figure out which end of the table their head should be and which end their feet should be. I thought about that. Perhaps the larger changes in my life were making changes like that of the direction of an adjustment table much easier to manage.

I said to Dr. Ben (my chiropractor), change is good. He agreed. He made the change so that when he is adjusting patients he uses different muscles now than when the table was turned in the other direction. Hmmm ... Maybe change allows us to utilize new skills that we never knew we had. I know that as I lay on the table I saw some things in his office that I had not seen in the previous 2 years. Maybe change helps us to see from new perspectives all that we have been missing up until the moment of change. Maybe change is good.

Of course, changing for the sake of changing is not a good idea. But Dr. Ben had purpose in his change, and it was good. But as I said it caught some of his patients off guard and confused them a little. They had to reorient their thinking about how to approach the adjustment table. Often changes do catch us off guard. We can either respond with frustration as though the change is a problem, or we can respond as though it is an opportunity.

I hope you will see the opportunities in the changes you face in your life this week.

Peace

Kerry