The Way Things Were

Change comes, many times, without warning. Or, if there were warnings, you were too busy to notice them as they crept quietly behind you until pouncing when you least expect it. It is like a shock to your system and you walk around in a daze. You look at your life in a different way, a new perspective perhaps. Something was taken away, or moved, or your situation is dramatically changed. As you try to wrap your mind around what is happening you realize that it is completely out of your control. Nothing you say or do will put things back to the way they were.
And that is how it’s meant to be.

Somehow, for some reason, that change is going to lead you to something good. Life will go on and perhaps was not meant to continue the way things were.
I truly believe the timing of certain events happens for a purpose. I do not understand why people pass away at a certain time (way too early in life) or why a job situation takes a sharp turn toward the unknown, but all we can do is trust in God and have faith that He will bring good out of a bad scenario if all is given to Him.

Don't we all catch ourselves, from time to time, wishing life was like the way things were sometime ago? Think of the growth, wisdom, and strength you have gained since that time, though. Think of the people you have met and become close to. Being stuck in your wish for life to go back is like facing backwards in life, there's no moving forward because you can't see ahead.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

-C. S. Lewis