"Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. We cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that we want something new. The old will defy the new; the old will deny the new; the old will decry the new. There is only one way to bring in the new. We must make room for it.” -- Neal Walsch
Honoring the past cannot mean living in the past. We must do for the next generation what our ancestors did for us. Make room for the new.
We will either evolve into a new way of being or devolve toward a sixth great extinction in the four-billion-year history of the planet. No one knows what the future holds unless we follow the path of least resistance toward extinction--fait accompli.
Big changes are coming regardless of what we do, but change is not the same as transformation and transformation is not another word for strategic planning. We must go beyond addressing what we see on the surface (lands, buildings, finances, ministries, aging, and health issues).
Those who suffer from analysis paralysis, entrenched in
conflicting emotions about future options and blocked by resistance to change
do not benefit from planning. Only making room for the new and striking out on a journey of personal transformation and communal evolution will take us into a future of new hope.
Dunn, Ted, Graced Crossroads: Pathways to Deep Change & Transformation, CSS Publications, 2020, Introduction
