Transformation

Transformations of any kind

Are naturally filled with grief and loss.

One thing falls away and the next rises up.

One thing dies as another is born.

This is the natural unfoldment

Of life, and of change.

We need look no further than to the natural world to confirm that this is true.

As each season gives way to the next,

Something is lost and something else gained.

Our goal, then, must be to learn from nature

How to gracefully meet each ending with

Trust and faith that something new,

Something beautiful

Will take the place of what is lost.