Change is challenging, Change is good, Change is Growth

I am not afraid to change, a fact of which I am quite proud. I have had some very difficult challenges recently and they are related to truth, transparency in communication and change.

It is a trememdous shock to learn that your perceptions of you are not quite as you might like them to be. In fact it is quite painful to learn that people you deal with on a daily basis do not see you as you see yourself.

I found this message on Renassiance Unity today and it totally hit home

I am not afraid to ask myself tough questions and I am not afraid to change.
Today's Meditation
Dear God,
Some questions are hard to live with it seems, because the answers are elusive or require a change of heart or mind.It seems easier not to think about those kinds of questions.I have been wondering when You might plant an idea in my mind that would lead me to write this prayer and send it out.An idea or a series of them have come, ideas that have become questions
.Questions that are hard to think about.
Questions about greed and the reality that this nation is becoming a land of those who have a lot and those who are just getting by.
Questions about life.
Questions about huge corporations who make incredible billions of dollars in profit and simultaneously reduce wages and benefits for millions of workers in the name of being competitive.
Questions about the few in our land who are rich beyond imagination and the millions of people who are barely getting by and who cannot afford health care.Questions about the constant spin that lulls so many of us to sleep.
Questions about why some who publicly proclaim to be in relationship with You do not seem to live
Your simple message of loving one another and caring for the oppressed and poor.God, am I way off track here?
Either I am missing something, or things seem very out of balance.If I am off base, help me understand.If I am seeing things as You want me to, help me to know what I can do.It seems to me that the real threat to our democracy and way of life is greed.Help me to ask myself the tough questions.
Help me live a life of honesty and integrity.Grant me the courage to live the answers to the tough questions.Open my eyes to Your truth and my heart to Your ways.
This is simply said and very difficutl to live.