You must be made new in your hearts and in your thinking. Be that new person who was made to be like God, truly good and pleasing to him. [Ephesians 4:23-24 (ERV)]

Fill me, O Lord; fill me with your Holy Spirit so that I can change and become the person you made me to be!

There is no growth without change; there is no change without fear or loss; and there is no loss without pain. Every change involves a loss of some kind: You must let go of old ways in order to experience the new. We fear these losses, even if our old ways were self-defeating, because, like a worn out pair of shoes, they were at least comfortable and familiar. [Rick Warren, from “The Purpose Driven Life”]