{"id":163,"date":"2009-04-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/04\/changes-love-and-the-dr-norris.html"},"modified":"2009-04-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T01:00:00","slug":"changes-love-and-the-dr-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/04\/changes-love-and-the-dr-norris.html","title":{"rendered":"Changes, love, and the Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life Comment of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losing weight, being healthy, straightening up finances, healing and mending troubled relationships &#8212; all are about making changes.&nbsp; Living life, being satisfied with what is, and what we have, not always questing for something out-of-reach.&nbsp; Loving what there is and how it is.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of these truths the other day, planning to write about them.&nbsp; Today, I read the comment below by an anonymous reader.&nbsp; I just love it!&nbsp; Hope you do, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I long for change.I need change.I want change.I love change.I care to<br \/>\nchange.I wanna grow old with change.No matter how i try working for<br \/>\na breakthrough in my life,i cannot afford to give up the hope that<br \/>\none day I MYSELF will be the CHANGE i wanna see,them to see.I wanna<br \/>\nsee it coming,happening!!!In a blink of an eye,how amazing it is to<br \/>\nbe in the place called change,i shall overcome the roadblocks that<br \/>\nhinders change in my life.Change is love,i suppose,one day,when love<br \/>\nis complete inside and outside one self&#8230; Surrender to change is<br \/>\nirresistible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do YOU think a satified life means?&nbsp; What do you think about change, and love, and surrendering to God?&nbsp; Please let me and our readers know, right now &#8212; post!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing weight, being healthy, straightening up finances, healing and mending troubled relationships &#8212; all are about making changes.&nbsp; Living life, being satisfied with what is, and what we have, not always questing for something out-of-reach.&nbsp; Loving what there is and how it is. 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