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Why are people so afraid of change? It is a natural occurrence in our lives yet when it is happening we often try and resist it. What kind of time and energy do we spend trying to avoid it when we never do stop CHANGE from happening? I think of aging as a perfect example. In our society we do everything we can to avoid the aging cycle. “Think facelifts.” We have seen how people become obsessed and we may even become obsessed in trying to avoid the natural progression of aging. Michael Singer, author of
I have to agree when I think of Phoenix Rising UCC. It came into being because First Congregational Church, Haverhill stopped resisting the CHANGE going on around them. When they stopped avoiding the inevitable, they found the new path CHANGE had created and rediscovered the purpose of being Church.