Change/Serenity

Another of my favorite entries in the book Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef:

Change/Serenity

"People change and forget to tell each other."  Lillian Hellman

How tenaciously we cling to the illusion that we will get our lives in order and they will stay that way!  How resistant we are to the normal process of change!  We often feel personally attacked if someone near and dear to us changes without clearing those changes with us first.  We have somehow come to believe that security and stasis are synonymous.

Change is the manifestation of our ability to grow and become.  When it occurs in those nearest and dearest to us it is an opportunity for celebration.  When it happens in ourselves, it allows us to share ourselves on a new level.  When we try to protect others from the awareness of our changes, we are being dishonest.  No one can care for who we are unless they know who we are.

The only constant is change.