{"id":218,"date":"2013-10-24T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.23.127:8081\/2013\/10\/24\/change\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T12:51:00","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggywbarnes.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-kvYZiPf9I5Q\/UmkfwjQe5dI\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/ilGB6L3tX-8\/s1600\/Change-happens-when-the.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"215\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-kvYZiPf9I5Q\/UmkfwjQe5dI\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/ilGB6L3tX-8\/s400\/Change-happens-when-the.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I woke up this morning thinking about change. &nbsp;When I sat down to read my devotional the subject was about change. Wow, no coincidence there! &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Change for many people can be paralyzing and devastating. &nbsp;Change does not do that for me but I can understand why it does for so many people. &nbsp;I can find change&nbsp;exhilarating&nbsp;and exciting. &nbsp;Change can give you a boost in a new direction. &nbsp;Change can give you a new perspective.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Change is usually not easy. &nbsp;It requires&nbsp;re-calibration&nbsp;mentally and sometimes physically. &nbsp;However, as Tony Robbins says, sometimes it is harder to stay where we are, doing what we are already doing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">As I wrote in my blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/declutterbugnc.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crossroads<\/a>, I know I have some changes coming in my life and I have to make some difficult decisions. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Right now change is necessary in my life.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">What changes do you need to make in your life today?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Are you willing to embrace the change?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><b>&#8220;When one door&nbsp;of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><b>&#8211; Helen Keller-<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I pray God opens those doors for me and I am willing to do what it takes to walk through them. &nbsp;I will pray that for you today, too.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning thinking about change. &nbsp;When I sat down to read my devotional the subject was about change. 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