Change is the only option

A true stroke of South American genius are the multi-speed highways of Argentina. I don't know how widespread this legal enforcement of common sense is, but I wish the U.S. of A. would take note. In a multi-lane highway, each lane has a different maximum speed assigned. The further lanes left you go, the faster the speed limit. The right lane might be going 85 km/h (52 mph), while the middle lane was throttled to 100 km/h, and the blessed left lane would be going 120 km/h (75 mph). Different lane, different speed.

Change is much like these multi-lane, multi-speed highways. You are going to change. Not changing is not an option. The only question is "at what speed will you change"?

A conservative or fundamentalist person says, "I won't change. I'll cling to the old tried and true." Unless they are still wearing animal skins for daily dress, they have been part of change. They get shoved along as the world changes around them, but they will change. Eventually everyone will own a flat panel TV. Good luck trying to find a tube CRT. You have to change eventually.

The middle lane is occupied by people that don't dig their proverbial heels in quite as much as culture changes. They aren't charging ahead like the lane to their left, but they recognize the futility of fundamentalist friction more quickly than the "that's the way it was and we liked it" crowd to their right. Most people you meet will live most comfortably in the center lane.

The left lane lurches with lead-footed pursuit of progress. They are driven by the optimism of evolution, not the comfort of the familiar. While a right-lane person champions the caution of low velocity, the left-laner finds acceleration to be the mode of choice.

I mostly find myself in the left lane. I am convinced that God is active and working in His creation, and that He intends to take it somewhere. That somewhere is a better place than now, so I accept the RSVP to partner with God to move culture forward. My stance toward life is shaped by this. I would rather be a lead foot than a lead weight.