Quotes about Transition

The first step in change is usually discomfort!

A lot of times we change, not when we see the light, but when we feel the heat.

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward. When they're at F, God calls them to G. When we're at L, God calls us to M. And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

Why didn't they just skip the whole sacrificial system all together? That would have been amazing. Just scrap the whole thing. Announce that the final sacrifice has been offered and there's no more need to do such things. Declare that the temple is going to be torn down. Proclaim that it is finished. Oh wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we? (Please tell me you enjoyed that last paragraph.)

It's at the end of ourselves that new futures open up.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen...

Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.