 So…we moved…again. Since Olivia and I have been married, this is the 9th apartment we have lived in. We feel like the experts now of packing and unpacking. Carrying up stairs and down stairs, maneuvering furniture around corners and reassembling the furniture that we have reassembled and disassembled before. Another new neighborhood and new neighbors, another new school for the boys. Don’t get me wrong, we love where we are, and we believe that we are exactly where we need to be. The perfect location in the perfect time. It is tough though to constantly be on the move. One of the things I enjoy in the moving process is coming across all the random lost and misplaced trinkets that have fallen or disappeared into obscure locations. Our packing process is full of the cry of “oh here it is!” as we discover the last piece of the puzzle or the toy car that used to light up. In this move we came across an old journal in which prayers and words of encouragement we written for Olivia and I at my bachelors party. We read through it and were amazed again at God’s guidance over the years and how so many of these had come about. One in particular stood out, “You won’t settle down, Don’t get comfortable where you are. You will move around a lot.”  We had a good laugh about this one. How true it has been.
We often feel like we live in a constant stream of chaos. This has been true of everywhere we have lived, although the chaos has been different in different seasons. Always running to the next appointment. Sometimes the pressure has been at work, sometimes it has been in our finances, sometimes it has been with our family, our security, our home or our health. Different storms at different times, but a storm never the less. In these times, when everything around you feels like it is moving, it helps to have a fixed point. A constant. Something that never changes and that helps to bring sense to everything that does. God is the only one who is the same yesterday, today and always and while our own opinion on Him may change, His word never does. Heaven and earth will pass away but His words never will. As we engage with His word, we are confronted with certainty. His word has always been true and will always be true. When it feels like chaos around us, certainty is comforting. When it feels like you are being tossed by the waves, the light house is the fixed point guiding you home. This is His word. Read more... |