Moving house presents all sorts of
opportunities–opportunities to build on what has passed and create something
new. Most of all opportunities to work with people:
to show kindness, patience; to bide your tongue and actually listen to
all their ideas–to think before
replying–to find their ideas are wonderful. Opportunities for exciting jobs
like moving books and cupboards, and also for less glamorous tasks like washing
the ever appearing mountain of dishes and baking potatoes to make sure that–in
all the flux–everyone stays fed.
It all seems to fit: moving house and into a new year at the
same time. Our lives are always full of the ever-constant and the
ever-changing. God is constant and calls us to be so likewise–living out our
faith–and at the same time He has decreed we be constantly changing–growing and
maturing as He shapes us more and more to the image of His Son. That shaping process
is sometimes painful, but at the root of it is joy–the joy that lies beyond
smiles and beyond tears.
In entering a new year–yes–we leave behind the past, but at
the same time, we don’t. Everything it was has become a part of us and we step
into the future with it–with all God has worked in and for us over the past
year, and looking forward to discovering the joy of what He will do in the
next.
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