To Grow Is To Change

 

Spring is just around the corner.  Here in Northern California, there are daffodils blooming despite the cold, wet, windy winter weather.  As the newness sprouts from the ground, we too are offered the opportunity to embark upon newness in our lives.  It is our choice to change our lives, to grow. Take a look at your life and notice where you could grow or change at this time.  See the areas where you feel stagnation or stuck.  They are the opportunities for growth and the expression of your full potential.  It is important not to avoid risk but to be faithful to ambivalence and growth, for it is in these areas of our lives that we become fully expressed and alive.

 

One of my favorite authors and thinkers is John O’Donohue.  In his book Anam Cara he writes, “Deep within every life, no matter how dull or ineffectual it may seem from the outside, there is something eternal happening.  This is the secret way that change and possibility conspire with growth.  John Henry Newman summed this up beautifully when he said, “To grow is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.” Change, therefore, need not be threatening; it can in fact bring our lives to perfection.  Perfection is not cold completion.  Neither is it avoidance of risk and danger in order to keep the soul pure or the conscience unclouded.  When you are faithful to the risk and ambivalence of growth, you are engaging your life.”

 

Now is the moment for change.  Take the steps to bring forth your feminine attributes and feel truly alive.

 

Maureen Simon
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Comments

[Dru Orr]

I love spring and appreciate it's link to change. Change is very frightening to most people merely because we fear the unknown. I am learning that when I become uncomfortable I need to stop and find what message God is sending me. With education and willingness to learn new concepts comes growth, and with growth self confidence increases.

[haleema mirza]

it is the most boring article i have ever read