Those Lines

I love those lines... 

The lines that wake you up when you didn't even know you were sleeping.

The ones that you instantly re-read; 

giving them a mental double-take, as if they were a mirage too good to be true. 

Those lines that stand out, like a single sun beam on a grey day.

They suddenly become illuminated right there on the page.

The ones that just don't feel right for the whole world to not know.

The ones that leave a circle on your mind like that of a tree line.

Change

If you read a life changing book, see a life changing movie, or have a life changing moment; you should be different.  I have always associated growth and new direction in ones life to typically be a good thing.  Yet, I hear so much nay saying when someone sees someone who has changed.  "Oh, that's not the same old Billy Bob I used to know, what happened to Billy Bob!?".

Maybe Billy Bob read a book, or saw a crack on the sidewalk one day, and realized something he had not yet realized, and he let that moment fundamentally change him.  Isn't that what we do in counseling?  Are we not looking for a fundamental lens shift?  A deeper understanding, that will hopefully stay with us, heal us, and lead us to new heights?  If we are all the same this year as we were 5 years ago,then I have to wonder if we are living life the way it is meant to be lived.