Embracing Change

For most folks change is a scary proposition; OK, maybe not scary but surely thought provoking if not concerning. Yet change is often a catalyst for growth in our lives. Change keeps us from getting stuck in a rut. Change brings about newness of one form or another and gets our cognitive juices flowing. Change “stirs us” out of our comfortable situation and causes us to stretch – mentally, and no doubt emotionally. Change is really a gift from God, even those changes that appear not happy ones; God simply loves us too much to allow us to live in mediocrity no matter how much we are enjoying the comfortable little patch of life we have located, built and strongly cling onto.

Do you know how the eagle teaches her little ones to fly? She takes her little eaglets on her back to a really HIGH altitude — way out of their comfort zone or little patch of AAAHHH, and then DROPS THEM! How rude! Then she swoops down and grabs them and does it all over again! MOM!!! She continues this act allowing the eaglet to fall further each time until the eaglet spreads its wings and soars into the air (probably with a great smile on its little eaglet face…OK, beak). Change promoted by what appears to be a “mean mom” is really changed orchestrated for the best interest of the eaglet; allowing the eaglet to find strength and confidence in tackling a very unpleasant and even scary task.

You may not be facing being dropped from a high altitude today, but you may feel nevertheless really scared and out of your comfort zone with a new assignment to which you have been tasked. Or maybe a boss or team leader who appears so very corporate and uncaring. Maybe a combination of both along with some personal stuff that causes you no rest in your own nest when you escape the corporate world or daily struggles. You’re anxious. You’re worried about failing. You’re concerned that you won’t measure up with the other eaglets. Along with all this worry, please find a vacant spot inside you to place the idea…this change is really an opportunity for you to fly; to take one step closer to becoming what you were always meant to be; to demonstrate that no matter what the altitude, you will find a way to glide until the moment you fly, and then soar.

I don’t make light of your situation or the fear you have just experienced or the radical change that just occurred in your life. I do want you to know I believe in YOU even though we may have never met. I believe you can find your way to soar past the fear of falling you may be experiencing, and I wanted you to know I am cheering you on with this little note :-).

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