Change is everywhere in life.

God seems to have designed it that way. Whether beautiful or painful, life altering or small, our pages are written with a story of change. If change is everywhere, we are encountering new realities all the time. From our first conversation with a person, to our first kiss, to a new job, to our first experience with loss, newness is all around.

When encountering change, we can be hesitant to embrace it, even outright resist it. It’s either scary, or hard, or too much, or not as much as we desired, or possibly a combination of these. Because change is constant, it can seem as if we are walking through the same scenarios again and again. We have felt these feelings before, had these conversations before, and walked through these situations before—these painful moments seem to never fade.

Even as we journey through the same situation for a second or third or tenth time, it calls for something new, for our story of change to continue in God.

Change For the First Time, Again

shares the life journey of the author while offering reflections on how to walk through change.