If nothing ever changes, then nothing ever changes!

Have you ever thought of this? If nothing ever changes, then nothing ever changes!!! Well my mom has! She saw it on a bumper sticker and shared it with Rene who shared it with me. How crazy is the notion that if nothing ever changes- everything will stay the same? Not so crazy right. In fact it makes perfect sense. So instead of fearing the change that is coming in life, I have had to learn to embrace it as steps on a journey to a destination which won't be much of a destination at all, but rather another step in my long journey home. And after all, it's not where I get in life- but what I learn while getting there that's going to help me in the hereafter. I've run into some great advice from friends and family lately- great advice and great attitudes.
I guess you could say I tend to fall on the negative side of things. I'm more of a "glass half empty" kind of gal when it comes to my life- and yet when it comes to others' lives and outside situations I have a rather sunny view. Figure that out would ya? No really- what's wrong with me? But I guess that's what friends and family are for: that outside sunny perspective. So instead of focusing on the winter chill I am realizing that if I don't get through the winter first- I can never get back to summer.

And I guess life will be like that forever and ever- cycling seasons throwing me and my family through change and teaching us the wisdom of each in its own time. And if I was thinking it was hard before I am now realizing that I was perhaps in the early stages of autumn (which I particularly love as a season- and has brought me so many joys as a time of life) and barely heading into a long winter. For all of you who may watch this show... "The Starks are always right eventually- winter is coming".
So am I ready? Am I prepared for a long winter? I think to myself that perhaps I am not, but then I change the question to this: "Will I make it through alive, in tact, married, happy, and better off for having lived through it" and my answer is: absolutely. So though I may not think myself ready for certain things to change in my life I am certainly ready for change! Because if nothing ever changes, nothing ever changes!