Thursday, April 28, 2005

Change Sucks

I have a friend who works at a local Garden Market IGA which is in the
process of changing to a Sobey´s Food store. He manages the bakery part
of the store and the changes have nearly been killing him.

To change the store over, they brought in consultants and head office
managers to make it happen. This strategy seems to produce a lot of
stress, but it is effective in getting the branding changed over in a
very short period of time.

So many things don´t make a lot of sense to my friend, why they are
changing this or that, and he mentions it to his boss who continually
challenges him to change or die!

So, life is stressful for him, for this month. Then it will settle down
and the hated outside managers will go back to their big city offices
whence they came, and the local store can get on with being the local
store again.

Peace will return, but they will probably be better equipped for the
local shopping environment. Thus they will make more money, which is
the goal of life, isn´t it??

Change is also happening to a group within our church.

No outsiders coming in to produce change, just local well loved and
respected people trying to help the group change, or die. And it isn´t
going so well, at all.

The people who care and have worked very hard to help the group process
the change, are being grounded down to little stubs by the relentless
complaints and challenges. I really worry for them. They give the best
of themselves, only to be worn down like this.

Tonight I communicated that perhaps they need to let the thing die.

Sometimes you fight hard so that a body will live longer because death
is the enemy. You end up fighting all the time because This. Thing.
Must. Live.  But sometimes a body gets so old and racked with
pain, that death is a release, a blessing.

We all face change, every day of our lives. The key seems to be how we
handle it. With poise and grace? Or angrily fighting down to our last
breath.

May God give us the wisdom to know when it´s time to turn off the respirator.



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