i am subject (to change)

You light my candle, O Lord my God.
You cast a beam through my darkness.
You gave us of all that You are, and You are the true Light.
You blaze the way before every human that walks the earth.
In You we see no shades of gray.
In You are seen no shadows of change.

I pressed toward You, and was pushed back that I might taste of death. You resisted my haughty spirit. But what could be more conceited, than that I had the strange madness to imagine that I could be what only You are? That I was subject to change should have been obvious. I wanted to change...But I preferred to argue that it was You who were subject to change instead of me.

- The Confessions of St. Augustine