We have spoken of beginnings now. Perhaps we will go back to touch on it more later. But now, we must speak of change.

Not to sound trite and cute, but the adage, ‘change happens’ should not be a foreign concept to us, for there is truth in it. Change comes to us many times as a welcome guest in our lives, inviting new possibilities, circumstances and situations. We anticipate going to college, meeting that significant other, travel to places we have not yet seen, and I could list many other things that could easily fall into this type of change.
Some of these things may be unexpected to us, but we have desired them, so they are accepted gladly.

Change can also frighten the hell out of us. A job loss, a spouse’s leaving, the death of a loved one, and numerous other unpleasant life events can make change unbearably painful. Though these are events that we have not expected, we did not think that they would happen to us.
When I was 15, a crisis happened in my family that no one would have ever expected would happen. It rent the family apart, and before I turned 18, my parents had finalized their divorce. This epoch is the point of my life flip, that dynamic place where normalcy was thrown out the window.