Into New Forms

You are not the person you were two days ago. A week from now you will be different as well. Every experience and event affects us, and changes us. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson put it like this, “The world’s incessant plan, halteth never in one shape, but forever doth escape, like wave or flame, into new forms.”

These “new forms” appear in nature, but also within the places and people we encounter. And we are a part of the process Emerson identifies and the “plan” that is perpetually unfolding.

This reality can be unsettling at times as we might want things to remain the same, or it can be exciting in the way that a novel, film, or sporting event can surprise us with “a form” we didn’t expect. Today, perhaps, notice something that changed from yesterday. It can be a new bud on a favorite plant, or a smile on the face of a stranger. Today, see a new “form” that invites you to notice and embrace the change occurring inside yourself.

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