Beating the Inevitable

“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” 
― Erin Hanson

Taking that first step into the pitch black scene, or taking a leap of faith off a cliff can be taunting. Maybe you didn't step at all, maybe, your earth just shifted under your feet. Either way, the changing of our world, thoughts, actions, and the people within our world, can be terrifying. Change is a strange thing. No one wants it, but no one can live without it. 

What would life be without change? The thought of no change is even scarier. If there was never change, our society wouldn't even be recognizable to us today. The things the majority of our world would never give up (phones, technology, cars, tractors, fashionable clothes, curling irons or straighteners, or how about the brewer for Starbucks coffee... the list goes on) these are all simple facets to the change that has already occurred. As I step back and look at what life used to be before, I am so very thankful for the change that has occurred. 

Striving for the future, taking that leap of faith, is unnerving. Change is hard because it means adapting to a new way of life. It's the blank piece of paper on which the story hasn't been wrote yet. However, change can mean beauty. It can be the new melody that unravels the greatest song ever sung. It can be the defining outcome of changing a persons life, or the joy you've skipped out on the last many years. Change can be the start to a new ending. 

Change is a crossroad in your life. You can choose to make different decisions and go in many different directions. Conjointly, many times, even if you long to not choose any direction, a decision will be made for you. No decision is a decision. The inevitability of change can be our fall, or it can be our flying. We have no control is if life changes or not, but we do have control in what path we take and how we carry ourselves through our journey. Be the change that changes a life. 

Living by Faith,

Mianna