Change in the Right Ways

"All he'd ever wanted was for nothing to change. Or for things to change only in the right ways..."

I'm currently in a book club that's reading "The Art of Fielding"by Chad Harbach.  Part of the story revolves around a baseball player named Henry.  Henry has always been amazingly good at short stop but as soon as the major leagues get interested in him, he starts doing badly and disliking the game in a way he never did before. As the narrator is describing this, he states the above about change.

How often is that the way I think about change?  It's something I say I like and I'm comfortable with, but do I really mean that? Or do I mean that I'm comfortable with change in the "right" ways?

Change is something I've been thinking about a lot lately.  How do I welcome it regardless of whether it's "right" or not? I know that the simple answer is "faith," but am I living that out? Do I welcome change or am I like Henry who wants for nothing to change?

Life is inevitably full of changes: in jobs, in location, in family structure, etc., and I want to be someone who can embrace and have faith through the "wrong" changes. I want to remember that I am not ultimately in control of what changes and doesn't, so regardless of the type of change, life goes on and it's a gift to be living it. If you really think about it that way, all change can happen in the "right" ways.