Article February 10, 2014 ISSUE

Resistant to change? Prayer brings clarity.

Marilyn Wickstrom

What is this world coming to? It certainly isn’t the one I once knew.

Many of us have probably asked ourselves this question and had a similar response. On some level, we may feel surprised that we’re being challenged by change. My grandparents never talked about having difficulty adjusting to driving a car instead of a horse-drawn carriage, or watching TV instead of listening to the radio or reading a book. And having modern plumbing and electricity were considered a privilege, not a problem.