Transition…it seems like a softer and more conscious word for Change.

Change can be surprising and abrupt, whereas transition seems to have more time allowed to its beginning, middle and end. Does transition ever end? Or like change, is it a constant companion, from birth, growth, death and beyond?

I actually can’t remember hearing the word transition as a child, or even later on through school. Trying to think when I first heard it made me think back to my childhood days and the closest I came to it was transistor. I begged for a transistor radio for Christmas the year I was in grade six. I was so thrilled when I got it.  Like the phones today, it was always with me, my earplugs in as I walked, actually, as I danced to school listening to the hits of the day. Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire was number 1 on the hit parade at the time. Wow, music has had such a huge transition in my lifetime, but that’s another topic.

I loved the transistor and it didn’t take up space or the place of visiting friends and hanging out with family, there was still plenty of face to face time, outside games, bike and horseback riding with my friends. It was really more for when I was alone. Walking by myself, hanging out in my room, falling to sleep at night. For me it was a feeling of ‘growing up’ into the teen world, the radio and the hit songs and dances. In a way, it was transitioning into the next stage of life, into the tweens, feeling like a teen. Cool!!

Perhaps they come from the same root – trans. And with that the mind moves into another interesting conversation for another time.

Write your own translation of this quote:

“Possibly the heart of our humanity is to want something we cannot achieve by our own efforts.”

My translations of this quote,

“Connected in our hearts, we can create and accomplish anything together.”

“There is a deep longing within to realize our true nature and interconnectedness with all, it also requires Grace.”