Article January 21, 1980 Issue

To change or not to change

H. JACK WYMAN

Sometimes changes come faster than we can assimilate them. And from what we read and hear, the future points to a stepped-up rate of technological, environmental, economic, and social change.

How should we respond? How do we decide whether a specific change is really good? Do we enthusiastically jump for joy, accepting change for the sake of change? Or do we stubbornly resist all change because it's different?

Most would like a sure basis for choosing between positive change that is to be welcomed and negative change that should be rejected. There is a solid metaphysical premise for such wise decisions. First, God is All-in-all, and His universe is utterly and totally perfect, unfolding its perfection forever but not needing or ever experiencing change. In our true identities, you and I exist and function in this divine kingdom as the reflected showing forth of the magnificence of God. But is heaven a distant "there"? "There" is simply the truth of what we call "here." Earthly experience is a misconception of God's creation. So the apparent change going on "here" must be viewed in the light of what God reveals to us about His creation.

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