Accepting change
Recently, I was badly shaken when I learned that my neighbors and friends of 28 years were selling their house to move closer to their children in another state. Over the years they and their three children had been a big part of my life, and letting go was far from easy.
I prayed to really know that “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28 ), and that I couldn’t be deprived of one iota of God’s infinite goodness.
As I struggled to get going each day, I was helped by rereading parts of a book I treasure. It’s The Gentle Art of Blessing by Pierre Pradervand. He writes: “On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth, for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.”
We can embrace divine Love’s plan, complete with its lessons and blessings.
Soon I realized that changes are unavoidable in the laboratory we call human life. But we have a choice: We can just cope, or we can embrace divine Love’s plan, complete with its lessons and blessings.
Using a practice shared by a friend, I began to greet each day with a sincere, joyful “Yes!”—welcoming whatever or whomever would show up in my life that day, and at the same time thanking our Father-Mother, God, for the lessons or blessings (or both) that would be included.
Little by little the unease lifted, and a few weeks later, friends of those departing neighbors (whom I also happened to know well) decided to purchase the house. The deal was sealed within a very short time, and they brought with them two gorgeous Bernese Mountain Dogs, a breed I grew up with and had owned for many years! The blessings were obvious, and the lesson—richly and firmly learned—was to fear change less, and trust Love’s plan more.
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