Monday in the Third Sunday of Lent

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can’t change the world. I can only change Bessie. And, honey, that ain’t easy either. — Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany, at 104

Out of the mouths of babes. Bessie reminds us that changing the world may not be our destiny, but changing ourselves is possible, but not easy. I never met Bessie, but I bet those who did may not think she needed to change, she was special just the way she was. During Lent we talk a lot about change a great deal, but we should not pay blind obedience to change. Change is not a virtue of its own. We are all special children of God. Phrases like “change or die,” or “change or stagnate” may sound good, but my grandmother used to say, “change for change’s sake is foolish.”

We heard a lot in the last couple of years about change, and I for one advocate many changes from the past. However, there are many things I never want to change. I bet you do as well. Remember “evergreens do not stagnate, they grow.”

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.