empty chairs
admin April 30th, 2010
Since my brother’s death a few months ago, I’ve been noticing the image of empty chairs more and more. Empty chairs at the dinner table, empty chairs at my meetings, empty chairs in my groups. Sometimes they are temporarily vacant and other times it’s a permanent absence, but either way, it’s change. The song Everything Must Change points out that change is inevitable but it’s not always easy. Sometimes we choose to initiate change and sometimes it’s forced upon us. Either way it shifts the balance of our lives all the time, and it’s an opportunity and a challenge to navigate the shifting waters and learn to be with the change rather than resist it. As Eastern philosophy tells us, What we resist, persists.
Making peace with change in our lives while processing the impact on us will help transitions go by more gracefully and effortlessly.
