Moving home is a challenge,
physically, mentally, emotionally, and especially spiritually – as we add those
physical, mental, and emotional stresses and tests together we are ‘graced’
with outcomes that ravage our spirituality.
These, below, are ten spiritual lessons that come to mind as I
reflect:
1.
Be mighty thankful for the
diligence in your partner as you work as a team to bring about a successful
move. She or he is doing what you probably don’t do quite so well. Appreciate
them.
2.
Though the work ahead seems long,
and arduous is the strain, with each step there are rewards of progress. Keep
looking forward and you manage what would despair you at times.
3.
Plan, plan, plan, and then when you’ve
finished planning, review those plans, which is another type of planning. But
don’t just plan – execute those plans.
4.
Of all the people that help us, we
have this responsibility: to make them aware that we care for them and that we
foresee their needs even as they help.
5.
Changing homes can bring a great
deal of uncertainty in our spirit. New surroundings can either liberate or
confound. It’s fitting to prepare the mind for such an experience where the
heart feels as only the heart can feel.
6.
Knowing the body is only so good.
Sometimes, many times, we are able to exceed our body’s normal limits, but the
optimistic mind – borne on the wings of faith – is the key. Stay positive and
more can be achieved.
7.
Be patient when progress is slow.
When unexpected obstacles arise, steady the teeming moment. Every significant
project or task will test us in some way.
8.
Change is the opportunity for
improvement; to set a new standard. Embark on what can be done, without thought
for the limits of past.
9.
When the body is sore, and the
temperament is fatigued, and thinking processes grind slowly, we may seem
defeated. Nothing could be further from the truth. We can take comfort in those
weary muscles, though they’re painful, and in a mind and soul that’s been taken
to their limits.
10. Take time, after the dust of the move has settled, and review
the learning. An earnest attempt at reflection with retrieve the wisdom of God,
spoken in the words only we are able to understand.
***
Change is stretching and renewing, and it will make us better if
we submit optimistically.
We can embrace change because of our unchanging God. Nothing we
face is impossible to adapt to because God’s unchanging nature is utterly
faithful.
© 2014 S. J. Wickham.
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