In less than a week we will be moving. I’ve known it was coming for a while, but it really hit me this past week. This is the first house Angela and I owned. It is the house that both of our kids came home from the hospital to. We knew it wouldn’t be our forever home, but it’s still pretty weird to think that in a week I won’t be coming back to it anymore. The worst part of moving is ALL OF IT! Moving is one of my least favorite things. In addition to all the horrible things that will go on in hell, I can imagine one part of it is that you have to constantly pack and move.
The process of finding a house can be stressful. The process of selling your house can be stressful. And then once you get both of those pieces lined up, there are still a million other small things you have to do before it’s over. As much as the moving process is awful, the end result is going to be awesome. We are super excited about our new house. We are super excited about the neighborhood we are moving to and there are lots of other positives to the move.
People can hate the moving process so much that they just avoid it. I know I don’t plan on going through it again anytime soon. At the end though, I think most people like the results of the process. There are times I do the same thing with parts of life. It can be easy to avoid the tough things. It can be easy to avoid the things I don’t enjoy. Romans 5:3-4 says, “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.” The trials and suffering are awful, but the things they produce are awesome.
Next week will be the end of a long journey and a start of a new one. The moving process will be over and I’ll be praising God for that. I’ll also use it as a constant reminder to focus on God through the cruddy parts of life knowing that He can produce way better things through the process.
until next time…