A Change for the Better

As many of you know, my office has moved!   A couple of weeks ago, my office was moved from the education building, where the pastor’s office has been for many years, to the new addition to the Gettysburg church.

Overall, this is a wonderful thing.  I am very excited to have a new office.  At the same time, though, there was a bit of an emotional tug in leaving the education building.  The office there is where I spent much of the last four years of my life.  There are memories there.  On the last day, as I did numerous things for the last time in that location, there was a bit of sadness mixed in with the excitement of moving.

But as I said, overall this change is a wonderful thing.  And in the weeks and months and years to come, it’s going to be an even more wonderful thing.  Change generally is. 

Not every change is for the better, of course, but most of them are.  And even when they’re not, change is just a part of life.  I had a history professor in college who would get upset when someone referred to a certain time period as a “transitional era” because he said every era is a transitional era.  It’s true.  We’re constantly moving from one thing to some other thing.  In life, we are always moving forward or backward.  We are never, ever, standing still.  Even if we’d like to, even if we’re so happy that we’d like to just keep everything exactly as it is, we cannot do that.  It’s not possible.  Everything keeps moving.  All we can do is move with them.

Change, even good change, can be a little unsettling sometimes.  There are still some issues that we need to work through.  There are some ways of doing things that needed to change as a result of the move, and we’re still in the process of figuring out the best ways of doing things in our new space.  It’s going to take some time.  But we’ll get there.  And eventually, these things will stop being “new” ways of doing things and just be the way we do things.  In fact, at some point, they’ll be the ways we’ve “always” done things. 

Change can be unsettling, but we’ll work through it and eventually, everything will be fine.  If you’re going through changes in your life, and those changes are unsettling to you, remember that.  And remember one other thing.  One thing we can count on is that there is One who does not change.  The Bible tells us that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  Through all the changes that life brings, God will always be there, and God will always love us.  And God will see us through all the changes that life gives us, both good and bad.

           No matter how many changes you may be going through, know that God is always there.  And know that you’ll get through all the changes that life brings us.