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In October of 2011, I launched my website, gratefulsue.com. It was so exciting for me to have an online platform for sharing my poems and plays. That was also the year my church produced videos of my Christmas play, Mystery - a man and more… and showed them as part of a Christmas program in December of that year. I was elated! (See the Plays and Prose tab for more info.)

That version of the website worked for many years until the host announced new regulations which necessitated change. So, in May of 2021, I announced on my former website that I hoped to give gratefulsue.com a new look by the following month. It took longer. Change is hard! How do I do this? What if people don’t like the new design? Despite my worries, the transition did go through smoothly. The new design was lovely and more navigable. It was an improvement…for a while.

Unfortunately, that hosting service became difficult to work with. So, in January of 2022, there was another transition: changing the hosting service again, changing the design again and changing who would help me with website mechanics again. More worries. But, those changes turned out to be another huge improvement… more than I imagined. (Thank you, Spencer!) Change can be a door to greater satisfaction and joy once we get through it.

Of course, I’m not mentioning all the worries and fears we encounter on a regular basis in our personal lives. Sadly, not all of those relationships and events turn out okay. Nevertheless, the advise of this poem is almost always relevant. Change what you can, but don’t feed the Why-dids and What-ifs.