Resistance

Summer series 2024

Somewhere between home and California

We stopped to take this picture a few years ago

Traveling acrossed the US to see our Grandchildren

We never expected Curtis would want to live in California

He always loved his home state of Oklahoma

But change is inevitable I guess no matter how we resist

As a child I would look forward to events with great anticipation

Imagining how this or that would turn out

I would even get impatient for the time to arrive

Resisting to live in the now in favor of the anticipated

Daydreaming of the future lost in my reverie

Mom would have to call me several times before I'd hear her

Children's milestones coming and going

Anniversaries coming and going so fast

Where has all the time gone?

So many years passed no matter how we long to remain young

We fight gravity, oxidative stress, sun damage and gray hair

Resistance is futile for soon we will arrive at the end and pass on from this Earth to heaven.

Change is inevitable in our lives

The lives of our children

The passing of days

Days change into nights

Despite my resistance the night comes

It's time for the end of day and yet I resist wanting the day to last just a little bit longer.

By Marsha Cullen

What change are you resisting in your life? How do you face change? Is it sometimes welcome? Sometimes not? Do you like the here and now so much that you hate to see it change? Or do you welcome change with open arms like a new adventure? If you don't want change how do you resist it?

Please share your thoughts below. We have some big changes coming up soon. How will you face them? Are you ready?