Hello all! I thought the title was perfect for this week because not only did I have a life altering lesson about change, but last night, Chelsea informed me that a vending machine ate her money.
Anyway, for my college writing class, we had to write about our "spiritual geography". The thing is, we were not allowed to use Christian cliches or any type of Christian wording. This was such a struggle for me because I have always just believed in God. There was no point in my life where I thought there was no higher power who made good and bad things happen in our lives.
So I wrote my first draft and it was LITTERED with everything my professor told me not to add. I was not settled with what I wrote. It seemed choppy to me and just all over the place with my thoughts and ideas. It is not that I did not want to revise, it was that I did not know how or what to revise! When I realised that I could not put off the revision any longer, I sat down not realizing the major changes that were about to take place.
It started off by changing all the God's to He's. I added a few things and suddenly had a change in heart. I was getting words from unknown source-perhaps my heart? It was all pouring out. The essay transformed into something about my resentment towards change, something that I have been struggling with recently. When I finished my revision, I sent it to my professor and she loved the new version! I continued to work on it and I am very proud of this essay because of the initial unwanted change that made it better in the end.
This essay is a lot like life. We do not always want change because we are comfortable, but sometimes (well, most times) change is for the better.
Moral: Embrace change even if it means an uncomfortable situation. It just may make your life better.
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