Change is very much a part of the airline industry and always has been. Airline people learn to be flexible out of pure necessity. Many times, though, we need more than a little help from God to truly be at peace with it.
Human beings are not very comfortable with change. This is because change, even for the good, is often painful. It is amazing how often we choose the misery we know over the possible solution we do not. This is especially true if our lives have been marked with more loss than most. The tendency is to try to hold on to what we have left.
The popular phrase “Let go and let God” applies here in the negative sense that too often we do the opposite. “Grip tightly and keep God at a distance” might be a better description of our practical theology. What we have trouble understanding is that anything we try to hold on to above God eventually slips through our fingers anyway.
Our comfort in unavoidable change needs to be the fact that what never changes is His love for us.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” -Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)
