I am hung up on sayings lately, perhaps some kind of comic relief, but I was thinking as I tossed and turned in the wee hours before dawn…..how dearly we hang on until we know it is time to leave. We will try all manner of fixes and excuses, new plans for old problems, just hoping against hope things will turn around and go back the way they were.

It is only the realization that we actually may go down with the ship that makes us realize we would rather take a chance on icy waters or sharks than to actually be gone and have no hope of another day. I am reading a Dave Ramsey book where he keeps repeating at the end of every chapter “Change is very hard and we change only when the pain of same is greater than the pain of change”. Every time I read it I thought he was overdoing it, but after three weeks of reading a chapter a day, that phrase makes a lot of sense to me.
Clearly I must be ready for the pain of change, if I am beginning to understand the weight of that message.

I also know that I am not willing to go down with the ship!