Change for the better

Day XL

From several quotations -

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson


All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France


When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl


When you are through changing, you are through.  ~Bruce Barton


Growth is the only evidence of life.  ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864


Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer


If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  ~Saint Augustine


Brothers and Sisters today let us look into ourselves, to the world we are in and in the circumstances we are facing. Are you happy with it? Do we see contentment on our daily lives? Do you see great peace on our way of living? 


As the quotation have said, things do not change but we need to change to make things right. Like a seed it needs to die to form a new life of plant and grow.

Luke 13:18 Thus Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it? 19 It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches.” 

Brothers and Sisters this is my 40th day, after my conversion and encounter with God. It was a great experience with trials and challenges to keep my faith strong, to keep my self clean and to always be on guard to be righteous. I was not able to perfect it either (being honest), Sins took me time to time, and again and again I asked God for forgiveness. Time and Time, as we go to that same test again and again we get reminded and learned from it. I hope that like me you would also be in constant fight to do the right thing. Even if we fail again and again let us always strive to do right to correct our mistake and to change ourselves to be righteous. Let us keep our temptations, sins and all other things that bring us down as a stepping stone to bring us to the light.

It is said we die daily, we must pray continually and always be alert. Let us change again and again to perfect ourselves so that when we are presented to our God he can see us flawless.  Amen.