Be Willing To Adapt

 Mark 2: 18-22

Jesus Questioned About Fasting

¹⁸ Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. ²⁰ But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.

²¹ “No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. ²² And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

Changes are always taking place and resistance to them is part of the process.  Jesus advises us to be open to the new lest both old and new be lost.  Living in these days of "radical" changes in our lifestyles, the tendency is to want the tried, and true, the familiar, the comfortable. Again, it's prayerful discernment with God and with others (a spiritual director,  for example) that will yield the direction we should follow.  Let us not be bound by the old, but let us not lose sight of it as we move forward. A delicate balance!

Bro, Rene