Being Open to Change

 Open my heart—suavesando me corazón 🎶.  From a song in Threshold Choir’s repertoire

How many times have I been rigid in my thinking? How many opportunities have been lost as a result? While my intention is to live in today, I find that it is imperative, for any growth to take place, to look back for the purpose of discovery. What was the situation? What did I do? What was the outcome? Did that outcome serve others and myself, or did it create chaos? What can I learn from that experience in order to do and be the better individual I strive to be? Do I still have a mess to acknowledge and try to clean up?

I’ve heard a lot of people say “That’s just the way I am” as an excuse not to look at their own behavior. I recognize this because I’ve said it—and believed it—myself. I thought it fell under the rubric of being ‘true to myself’, when all it really was was a justification to remain the same.

Growth involves change. It’s necessary. It’s inevitable. That being so, I may as well be open to it and embrace it as a wonderful emerging. It’s like the caterpillar-to-butterfly miracle, in that all that no longer serves must be dissolved and reformed into something better. The process can be daunting and scary, but if I hang in there, I will be in the position to be amazed!

Today, I am grateful for the daily miracles and challenges which encourage me to open my heart to all that  is and all I encounter on my path.