The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'.

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road isRapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

I love the message of this classic Bob Dylan song. Right now I feel that everything around me is in transition. Not only is my personal life changing but also the culture around me. Sometimes I get really angry because I feel that I just can't keep up with it all. And the one thing that I keep telling myself that is that as difficult as change is, it is still going to happen in my life.

Deuteronomy 32:3-5

I will proclaim the name of the Lord;

How glorious is our God!

He is the rock; His deeds are perfect.

Everything He does is just and fair.

He is a faithful God who does no wrong;

How just and upright He is!

In the mist of the chaos of change we must acknowledge that God's plan is perfect and His ways are not always our ways. I have learned that especially in my life that change needs to not be rejected but accepted. Like Bob Dylan says "Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone cause the times they are a-changin'"