To Every Thing There is a Season

The past year has brought many changes for me and my family. I don’t like changes - especially big ones. They make me dizzy and feel like I have no control and it takes me forever to adjust. I’m not complaining, just adjusting. Here is a run down of all the changes that happened:

One of my closest friend’s daughter got married and moved away (far away)

My close friend herself got married and moved away

After ten years of living in our home, we were foreclosed and had to move

We moved to a new town – we almost moved to a new state altogether

Sometimes I find it hard to let go and let God take control. While I was packing, I thought of the children of Israel down in Egypt. I felt like I knew how some of them may have felt: excited, yet at the same time uncertain and possibly even afraid of the unknown future after being in the same place for so many years. From the night of the Passover, when they ate in haste with their shoes on ad their staff in their hand, from then on, they had to be ready to move on – toward the Promised Land. I imagine they didn’t have as much to have to move as we did.  And that thought inspired me to lighten my load… to let go of this world’s goods.  Perhaps, that’s what the Lord wanted. He doesn’t want me to be attached or comfortable with anything in this world for I am just a pilgrim and a stranger in this world. I know that He is getting me ready for a much bigger change – a body change – the RAPTURE!

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 & 11