Through all of this change that is going on in my life and all the craziness that is going on in the world, I am left thinking a lot about the Hindu God, Shiva.

Shiva is the destroyer God.

For awhile, before I understood the concept, I always had trouble understanding why a God of destruction would be worshiped.

But what I am learning is that not only should we honor the difficult parts of life (in this context: destruction, loss, breaking down of systems), we also need destruction in order for creation to start anew. The other side of destruction is transformation.