The Night before Change

How many transitions appear in one lifetime? How many events influence the next choice that will lead to another relationship inside yourself—or create a pathway to the unexpected? What if the Unforeseen ushers in an intense challenge or breakdown in a long-standing connection, or awakens a deep-rooted truth you never clearly saw before now? And what if your response to this unforeseeable moment ended in a decision to move to an unfamiliar place or live a healthier lifestyle, or draw on a fresh way of perceiving the life you already inhabit? How many roles will you act out, how many solitary moments will determine the next answer, and how many skins will you shed to get to another phase beyond your comfort zone—or past this prevailing mode of being?

Just like the waves making up an entire fluctuating sea, as unpredictable as they are inevitable, we have no choice but to go through transformation. These What Ifs are happening all the time to everyone, everywhere through subtle changes and abrupt shifts. Unsettled or planted, change is ever-present. Ubiquitous. Sometimes a big change might have felt overwhelming, as though the formerly current stage was shoving you out of a personally comfortable, familiar threshold and into the open seas of the unknown.

It's not always easy to envision connections as sequences, or see turning points as useful signposts, or forks in the road as universal options with no wrong or right answer, merely differing routes that will offer an opportunity to expand and grow as we’re being led by some mystery into a forward moving motion.

I wish you all the encouragement and care you will need to keep going. I wish you always well. May you see the Former Way of Being as a guide anointing you with approval and confidence. May you recognize the truest course to set your pace. May you find sanctuary in the joy of fond memories, kindred spirits and future blessings. May you welcome the hidden beauty within transition, and may you always know your path, whichever way you choose, will ultimately lead you Home. - Susan Frybort


The Night before Change

As your dreams pace restlessly
between wake and sleep,
it is the eve of transformation.
Old identities no longer fit.
Transition calls out in the night.
You sit on the hinge
ready to swing into change,
trembling, nto knowing the outcome.

Courage stands by on this threshold,
when you are ready to begin
completely and finally.
Courage remains as you bloom into life,
then step over into a bold new reality. - Susan Frybort