A change of heart

Daily Meditations: Richard Rohr There is a difference between change and transformation. Change happens when something old dies and something new begins. Transformation is when I change in the process of outer change. I am told that planned change is even more troublesome to the ego than unplanned change. The ego wants to find a way to avoid changing if at all possible. God usually has to demand it of us. In fact, we call them “acts of God” and they more often elicit inner transformation than anything we or others can control. If anybody at all is asking us to change—be it our partner, Congress, the church, the neighborhood association—every form of ego control and resistance will come out in legions to accuse, defend, and oppose. One wonders how we can effect change at all, when no one wants to be transformed.