2022 – Week 1 – Change!

This year’s Master Key experience is going to be different for me. Like most people, I’m not a fan of change.

I was scrolling one morning last March and came across an essay written by John Roedel. He writes his conversations with God, and I loved this one about change:

“Me: Hey God.
God: Hey John.
Me: Change is coming.
God: It always is.
Me: I hate change.
God: You shouldn’t. Life is constant change.
Me: I just want things to stay the same.
God: No you don’t.
Me: Um – yes I do!

God: If things never changed then you would take everything for granted. If the sun didn’t set, you wouldn’t miss it when it was on the other side of the world. If winter didn’t come you wouldn’t miss warm summer breezes. If the people you are close with didn’t leave or pass away then you wouldn’t cherish every moment with them. If you didn’t age, you wouldn’t appreciate your youth. The music of your life is changing it’s melody and rhythm all the time. All things change. The good and the bad. Happiness can come and go – just the same as your suffering. Nothing on Earth is forever. Your life is an adventure of persistent transition.

Me: change is just so scary.

God: I know – but think of it like taking a new breath. you can only hold onto one breath for so long before you have to let it go and drawn a new one in. That is how your physical life works. Sometimes you have to let old things go in order to make room for the new. Try honoring each of the breaths you take as the gift that it is. Honor each person in your life as the miracle that they are. Honor every moment of your life because each of them are unique and will never come back around in the exact same way again.

Me: Easier said than done.
God: It always is.
Me: I want time to slow down so I can appreciate how my life is right now before change comes.
God: Oh, I know a secret to slowing time down quite a bit.
Me: You do?
God: Yeah – it’s called gratitude.

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everything is moving
so so so fast

my hair is graying
my friends are leaving
my eyes are failing
my children are growing
my heart is transforming
my days are a blur

but God’s love
for me moves
in slow motion

when I rest
in that slow love

the sun crawls across
the sky

the spring flowers take
their sweet time
blooming

my beloved friends
linger on my heart
like a piano note
that won’t fade away

the words of love that
come from my
wife pour out like
maple syrup

when I rest
in slow God’s love

and honor each
moment

and whisper a soft
“thank you . . .”
to the ear of the Divine

time slows down

and change doesn’t
seem nearly as terrifying.”
~~john roedel

Hundreds of people have decided to change this year. What changes are you hoping to see in yourself?