As an itinerant person I have moved 8 times to satisfy the location of my professional assignment. Soon it will be 9 times. I am in the process of contacting movers to see who can best relocate my daughter and me from Indianapolis to Bloomington. We are looking forward to the move...the church we are going to, the neighborhood we will be living in, the school Hannah will attend: these are all great places!
But packing up, and leaving behind, and saying goodbye are difficult things to do. Even when one is accustomed to doing these things, they are difficult.
It occurs to me that packing up, leaving behind, and saying goodbye can also be good things. Here comes the preacher talk. There are items that I do not want to make the move with me. Items, and patterns, and disappointments, and more. There are things very much worth leaving behind. Things, and mistakes, and words misspoken, and more. It will be good to say goodbye to work not done as well as it could have been, and good solutions arrived at too late, and stuff I intended to do but never got around to, and more.
A fresh start for both a ten year old daughter and a sixty-four year old dad is once again evidence that both life and God are always at work.
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- Ned Steele
- Just some time-to-time random thoughts about items I pause to contemplate. As a church pastor, baseball lover, husband, dad of a middle-schooler, and certified old guy...those random thoughts and items of contemplation could be quite wide and varied in nature. I've hosted a radio program and a TV show, but I ain't never blogged...let's see how it goes.
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