Even strong stone buildings after some years, even if it means hundreds of years, show signs of decline. You cannot escape change.
A philosopher like the Greek philosopher Heraclitus has said that you cannot get into the same river twice. A dicey thinker asks: is it not right to say that you cannot even enter the same river once!
So if change is part of our human existence, then I should be prepared to change and not cling on to obscurantist opinions.
There is a succinct saying in Latin: "vita est in motu" (which paraphrased could mean: life is in constant change or very simply "change is the essence of life"). The holy season of Lent in which we are presently, invites us to change our lives.
All of us have some defect or other. Compared to the holiness of god man can only say he is unworthy to stand in front of him. This was the experience of the prophet Isaiah that he is a man of unclean lips and he keeps his hand over his mouth when confronted by a vision of the glory of god (Cf. Is 6.5). Even holy Jesus when he is praised by a rich young man in the Gospel as good, retorts: "Why do you call me good? No one is good but god alone" (Mk 10.17-18).
If this is the case with Jesus in his sacred humanity, how much more ready should I not be to confess that I have my faults and failings? So, in this holy season of Lent we should repent which means change
radically towards god and ask his help to change.
God loves the repentant sinner and enables us to overcome all evil. Along with his spiritual healing there is also much psychological healing in this season. The song of Mary also proclaims that the rich and the proud go empty away whereas the humble, lowly, the needy and the starving get their fill (Cf. Lk 1.46-53).
Why do you hesitate? Go to the Lord confess your sins, confess your powerlessness to get rid of a bad habit that is destroying you both from within and without and tell him that you are ready to change and be changed according to his wishes.
The power of the almighty is such that he will indeed change you. We have many examples of such changes in the Bible e.g., St. Paul whose year we observe this year, underwent a dramatic change from being a persecutor of the church to being an apostle preaching Jesus (Cf. Acts 9.1 ff).
