Are you a convert? Entering the Church for the first time, finding it different or hard to adjust? Do you feel that maybe this is not where you want to be, because it feels different or odd? Allow me to pose a different question. When you began a brand new job, in a new place or even a new department or office, did you feel out of place, odd, thinking that maybe it may not work out or that things are not to your liking?
These feelings are normal and speak of the period of adjustment. They do not speak about whether it is wrong or bad. With anything new and unfamiliar comes a period of adjustment. The tendency of some people is to withdraw and move back into what is familiar, which is always what and where they were before. The feeling of comfort is a confusing feeling at times. People get comfortable in unpleasant environments where they believe they can do little about. This is called complacency and is confused with comfort. Here we see people wanting no change in order to avoid the discomfort of change.
