Who Moved My Cheese??

"Who Moved My Cheese?" is a little book, that you can read in an hour or less, if you rush through it. But don't rush through it or you will miss the nuggets of cheese that it delivers.  My first encounter with this book was at work. Years ago we were going to put in a new automation system, we had just changed ownership and our bosses wanted to make sure we were on board with the change. Some of us were and some weren't. It was only two people out of the group of eight ready for change. I was one of them.

Change is uncomfortable and scary.  Most of us don't like change. We can see it coming, we don't embrace the change until we have to. I  wasn't always like that. I was a change agent. As you get older your life settles into a comfortable groove and you get lazy about change.  Every day is the same and you like it.

In the book "Who Moved My Cheese", you are introduced to four characters: Sniff and Scurry, Hem and Haw.  Sniff and Scurry seek out change and look forward to it. Hem and Haw basically don't like change, they see it coming but don't change unless they are forced to.  At one point in like I was a combination of Sniff and Scurry. As I got older I became Hem and Haw.  I saw change coming , I tried to tell others that change was coming but according to people I was being paranoid. 

Some of us would like to change but we don't know how. Some changes can be painful. Some are exciting. Someone once said the only consistant thing in life is change.  We have comfort that the Lord does not change. His methios of reaching us may, but His ways don't change. I love it when people try to put God in a box and say that He can't work this way or that way. He is God, besides Him there is no other, He can work any way He chooses and with anyone He chooses.

God wants to use us, but some of us have a little Hem and Haw in us. We hate change. Let's ask the Lord to help us in transition....

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  1. StacieSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:16 AM

    I would love to read this. Sometimes I embrace it, and other times, I fight it. And something similar happened to me at another job. Everyone seemed paranoid something was going to happen, so I thought. I told them they were all silly. Something DID happen. We all eventually lost our jobs, something I never thought would happen, something we were told would never happen. That was one of the times I didn't handle things very well.

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