If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My problem is choosing just one thing… At least by next Sunday I should be wearing different glasses. I had an eye test on Friday and need a new prescription. But I felt like changing my image too. So I hope you like the new frames. It’s the new me. Some things we long to change. Others we don’t want to change. This Summer I turn 60. Apparently my children want to celebrate. I don’t particularly. This hit home a few months ago. I was on a London tube train during the rush hour, carrying a rucksack. An Asian gentleman got up and offered me his seat. I didn’t know what he meant to begin with. Then it dawned on me. That was the first time anyone has ever offered me their seat. I felt acutely self-conscious. Ageing is an irreversible change. We can deny it, resist it, botox it, liposuction it, hide it, disguise it, colour it, ignore it or, we can accept it.
Rick Warren says, “A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy – a wasted life.” That’s because God actually wants us to change. Because change is a necessary.
Change is an inevitable part of a growing spiritual life. We need to change continuously to become like Jesus.
How Can I Ever Change? from Stephen Sizer on Vimeo.
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Unless you benefit from annual winter breaks in the sun, January is not necessarily a month we look forward to here in the UK. The long-range Met Office forecast invariably predicts cold and usually wet weather. It is still dark when you get up, the days are short and summer seems light-years away.
