I keep hearing so much about Change these days. So what does CHANGE really mean?

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary says “Change” is:

to make different in some particular

to make radically different

to give a different position, course, or direction to

to replace with another

to make a shift from one to another

to exchange for an equivalent sum or comparable item

to undergo a modification of

to undergo transformation, transition or substitution

That’s the definition and it sounds good when you read the first line: to make different in some particular.

But keep reading down the list. Actually, stop at number two. That’s the tough one: To make radically different. Then if you keep moving down the list it gets even more difficult: to replace with another, to shift from one to another, to transform.

Change is good. In fact change is great. But before you go asking for change, you’d better make sure you are ready for what you are about to receive.