Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes

Change. It can be very threatening. 

Sometimes we unconsciously choose to become ineffective, irrelevant, or even die rather than change. It happens with individuals, marriages, businesses & organizations. 

Traditions and rituals are effective as long as they are relevant. While truth never changes, times change as do the needs of people, so when our traditions are no longer relevant, we need to be open to change; that is, creative and productive change—not just change for change's sake, or simply to be so-called "politically correct" which, more often than not, is an oxymoron if ever there was one.

The same principle applies to my personal and family life. If I want to see change, instead of doing more of the same—which many of us tend to do when what we are doing isn't working—I need to make some creative and relevant changes. 

As the saying goes, "Nothing changes if nothing changes, and if I keep doing what I've always done, I'll keep getting what I've always got, and will keep feeling what I always felt."

Dear God, 

give me the insight 

to accept traditions 

that are relevant; 

the courage 

to change the ones 

that aren't, 

and the wisdom 

to know the difference. 

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer.