It's Time To Make A Change

Whether you recently voted, have financial problems or just had a new addition to your family, change can be a difficult thing. We don't know how change will effect us and in what new directions it will take us. The idea that we aren't in charge of our own destiny makes me feel like a plastic bag in the wind. Change brings insecurity and makes you yearn for the old days. But change can also mean good things, the possibility of new challenges. The chance to make a difference and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

I once heard a story, maybe a myth. A long time ago a king recognized that his people were going through tough times and unfortunately it wasn't going to get better. So he decided that his people needed to be reminded of a positive message. A message that would give them piece of mind and security. A message that would last after he was gone so that his people's people would also see the truth in it. So he called for all of his wise men and told them of his concern. They deliberated for a long time and finally after the king had almost moved on to another solution they came to him. They told him four words, to which the king immediately saw the truth in and immediately had them chiseled above the gates so that all who walked in and out of his kingdom would see them. And just as he wished, the words stayed. The gates eventually fell but the words remained. Those words ring true as much today as they did back then and give me great comfort now, "this too shall pass."