CHANGE FOR GOOD

CHANGE

"Now is the time for tumning. The leaves are beginning to turn from green to red to orange. The birdsare beginningtoturn and are heading once more toward the south. The animals are beginning to turn to storing theirfood for the winter. For leaves, birds and animals, tumning comes instinctively. But for us, turmlngdoes not come so easily. It takes an act of will for us to make a turn. It means breaking old habits. It means admitting that we have been wrong, and this is never easy. it means losing face. It means starting all over again. And this is always painful. It means saying I am sorry. it means recognizing that we have the abilityto change. These things are temblyhard to do. But unless we tumn, we will be trapped forever in yesterday's ways. Lord help us to tumn, from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith. Turn us around, 0 Lord, and bring us back toward you. Revive our lives as at the beginning, and turn us toward each other, Lord, for in isolation there is no life."