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CHANGE - ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVEMENT
John Killinger relates the story of the novel The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by Russian writer P.D. Ouspensky, published in l937. It was the story of a man who wished to amend his mistakes by living his life over again. "If only I could get back all the chances which life offered me and which I threw away," he cried. "If only I could do things differently." Ivan goes to a magician who reluctantly complies with his wishes, but warns that nothing will be different. And as Ivan Osokin watches, as in a screenplay, the repetition of his strange life - helplessly reliving the bitter failure of his school days, the sweetness of early love, the reckless experiments of his particular temperament - he observed "those chain of events when everything happened as if by clockwork, as in the machine the movement of one wheel makes another wheel move." He did the same absurd things down to the smallest details. In desperation, Ivan pleads, "What am I to do then?" The magician responds: "Remember one thing. If you go back as blind as you are now, you will do the same things over again, and a repetition of all that happened is inevitable." The magician adds this insight: "In order to change anything, you must first change yourself." Given a second chance, our reactions will be the same as before unless there is a change in ourselves - a change of heart. And there cannot be a change of heart until we admit our need and struggle for change - as a drowning man fights for his life.
(John Killinger is Professor of Theology and Culture at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama)
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