Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.
You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new.
The old will defy the new;
The old will deny the new;
The old will decry the new.
There is only one way to bring in the new. You must make room for it.
-Neale Donald Walsch
(From Eager To Love, by Richard Rohr)
This makes me think of the parable of new wine in old wine skins. I remember years of wondering what that meant until I finally got off my bum and looked up something about wine storage 2000 years ago. But the notion that the old cannot hold the new was the take away as I finally wrapped my head around it. I see this so often at work – it’s a 100 year old agency and we are trying hard to keep it youthful and strong and changing, but the biggest obstacle is the “old school” and the “old guard”….and for me after 26 years working not to BECOME the old school old guard!