By Paula Miller Life is full of transitions.  We move from one season to another, sometimes gently, and sometimes forcefully ushered along with conditions over which we have no control.  Transitions can be hard physically, emotionally and spiritually, in particular if you’ve been pushed into it by those forceful conditions.  Listed as some of the most stressful events in life are moving, marrying, the death of a person close to you, and the birth of a child.  We all will experience some or all of these things in our lives. Transitions have similar stages.  First, there’s the preparation stage.  Planning as we can for what is to changing makes it…