The Only Constant?

Change.  Does that word make your pulse run a bit faster, or perhaps cause you to break out in a cold sweat?  Change can mean leaving behind neighborhoods, and homes you love.  Or saying goodbye to a wonderful job, and co-workers that are more like family.

The author, Kristen Strong, didn’t experience much change until she was a young adult.  She grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood.  Many of the residents were related to her, and her family had lived in the same area for years.  Kristen didn’t have to learn how to make friends because she was surrounded by cousins that were her built-in playmates.  But after marrying her college sweetheart, she experienced change in a big way.

Her husband, David, was a military man, and she suddenly found herself propelled into a life unlike anything she had ever experienced before–one of constant change.  While adjusting to married life, she also had to get used to living in a new place, along with the lack of family, and life-long friends surrounding her.

Kristen had to learn how to get around a new city, make new friends and find a new church family.  At the same time, David, was often deployed for long periods, so she was doing this all alone.  Just when she was feeling like she was finding a niche in a community, her husband would get a new assignment.  That meant moving, and starting all those things over, along with saying goodbye.  Again.

But I really don’t want to change….

Most of us don’t like change, in fact, we fight against it.  The author filled this book full of real-life examples of how she, along with a number of other women, faced changes of all sorts in their lives.  Some changes the women knew were coming, and some were traumatic events that blindsided them.  In all these situations, the women have found ways to cope, and sometimes to thrive.  Kristen Strong tells us their stories.

By the end of this easy-to-read book, you still might not like change.  However, you will be equipped with useful suggestions that can give you the confidence to make it more bearable.  Perhaps even allowing you, like those in this book, to find blessings in unwanted change.  I highly recommend this 5-star book to anyone who will be, or has, faced changes in their life.

The publisher has provided me with a complimentary copy of Girl Meets Change through Revell Publishing for the purpose of review.  All opinions expressed are my own, and I was not required, or influenced, to give anything but an honest appraisal.  Despite my receiving the book free, it has not influenced my judgment.

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