By The Rev. Don Remick, Transitional Interim Conference Minister for the MA Conference, UCC

It was Mark Twain who observed that the only person who likes change is a baby with a wet diaper.
 
Well, that baby, and our God.  Our God, who is constant, whose steadfast love endures forever, who is the same yesterday, today and forever; our God likes change.  Not change for the sake of change; but change that leads us out of the delusions of the stability and security for which we so strive.  Our most sacred stories speak of a God who moves us from Egypt’s slavery into the wilderness; talks with us in times of exile, drives God’s very self into a deserted place and walks through death to resurrection.
 
God may like change, we are not so fond of it.  In a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, we long for some place of refuge, safety, security and stability.