No Wallflower Here

I am currently taking a course on Leading and Managing Change and one of the articles I just read had a great quote about change. It's from Curt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle: "Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." What a great way to view change. Change is constant, yet we usually resist it. We like our comfort zone. Yet God may be asking us to dance with Him. To let Him take the lead so to speak. I know I resist making changes for fear of the unknown. I worry about getting it right. I worry about what other people might think. I focus on the destination so much that I forget that the joy is in the journey. What happens if the destination changes in the middle of the dance. Is my effort to that point wasted? Not at all. Sometimes you have to get from point A to point B before you can ever get to point X. Like the saying goes, you can't get there from here.

Being able to act in uncertainty is one of the keys to managing change in our lives. It is the skill of being able to move with insufficient data. You never have enough information to make a decision. But if you wait for perfect information, you risk losing the moment. When you are dancing, you have to make your moves in tandum with your partner. The information is always cloudy and incomplete. That's when we need to let our partner take the lead.

So I chose to let the One who knows me best take the lead. To trust that the moves that I'm making are what He wants. To focus on being together with my partner, rather than on the next move. I just hope He likes the Jitter Bug.