Change

The word on my mind today is change. There's so many changes that happen in life: changes in circumstances, changes in feelings, changes in beliefs, changes in everything. If I've learned anything in the past few years, it's been that people change. Whether we choose to accept it or not, no man is perfect. From the beginning, man chose sin. Yes, times have changed, but man is the same. God has been trying to teach me that we can't control other people's actions. So we have a choice: we can choose to forgive, or we can choose to live in pain. It should be easy, right? Just forgive. Well, easier said than done. We think that if we just pray hard enough and talk long enough, people will change again. I have long struggled with this idea, only to find out that people are going to make their own decisions, whether I agree with them or not. So what are we to do? Accept bad choices? Shrug the pain off? I, for one, have no idea. All I know is that change happens, and it can hurt. But people will make their own decisions. We just have to sit back and trust that God knows what He is doing with those changed souls. We can pray, ask for change, and ask for peace. Change is a hard thing sometimes. Luckily God is there to lead us through it every step of the way.