Change Change Change

// February 19th, 2008 // Christian Living

We have FINALLY moved to Kernersville and are so happy to be here.  The people of KCC have been so amazing.  This move has been almost seamless thanks to their hard work, prayers and generosity.  We have really been blown away by it all.  We are extremely grateful to be surrounded by a people that love us so much and are actually glad to have us around :).

In the midst of all this change, I have been thinking that change is a funny thing.  It shakes you up and spits you out upside down.  Most of the time change is good for us (even when it feels so bad).  It moves us out of the place we feel comfortable and makes us examine who we are and dig a little deeper into God for comfort in the uncertain times.  The exciting thing about change is that you get a fresh start (even if only a minor one).  There is something about starting out in a different place (both physically, spiritually and emotionally) that is both exciting and terrifying.  It is refreshing to know that areas I may have felt boxed in in the past I don’t have to now, but at the same time it is strange not to feel those boxes and not to really be known.

I am looking forward to embarking on this next leg of the journey God has for us.  As much of a creature of habit as I like to be, I am glad that God has seen fit to shake things up.  I know that what He has for us in this next leg may be wonderful at times and may be very hard at times, but knowing that we are in the place God has called us to brings a comfort and a steadfastness to the uncertainties that creep in.  I am glad that God knows me better then I do.  Aren’t you??

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  1. Chip says:
    February 20, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    I was really struck by your sentence about boxes – being able to get out of old boxes you had yourself in or other’s had you in. There’s a comfort and frustration in our “identity”. I experienced this when we moved to Winston Salem back in 2002. Lots of people in Boone knew me as a musician and a worship leader. Suddenly no one knew me. It was a jolt to my identity – I was out of my box. I ended up in a couple of other boxes: my career box and my being a daddy box. Now we’ve moved to Sanford and I’m readjusting again. Ultimately, God wants me to find my identity primarily in Him. I think of Jesus’ words in John 15: “remain in Me”, “abide in me”, “let My words remain in you”.
    Also, I wonder if you brought up the whole “box” thing because you’re surrounded by boxes full of all your stuff. It’s a great feeling when you get all your boxes unpacked. Maybe there’s a sermon idea in that for Ben!
    Finally, the best dentist and pediatrician in the world are now very close to where you live. We miss them a lot!
    God bless you!

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  2. Joseph Cotten says:
    February 21, 2008 at 9:04 am

    It is pretty funny how the packing and unpacking of cardboard boxes so often correlates to the “unpacking” of our own soul’s boxes.

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  3. Matthew Ezell says:
    February 21, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Well it is so interesting first to find some people from my home state filtered through a website of a friend in Florida. Good luck to you on the move to Kernersville, I know that you will love the area. And to the guy from Boone, GO APP STATE and what a beautiful place Winston is.

    To your idea of being trapped inside of your boxes, it is totally true that we all are surrounded by the boxes of our lives. When we have to change into a new box or move your current boxes to a new place it is very difficult. Me and my wife moved to Florida after living in Boone while we were going to school. And to first move from the school life to the work life , then moving from the dating to being married, man was that turmoil to adjust to the new boxes in your life. But through it all I think that we should keep all of our boxes inside the big box of God then we should not have a difficult time adjusting.

    Keep God close and I know that all will work out for you no matter where you move or what changes you have in your life.

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  4. Sarah (Real Life) says:
    February 22, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    Chip: “Also, I wonder if you brought up the whole “box” thing because you’re surrounded by boxes full of all your stuff” LOL!! How true!

    I am very resistant to change, and each time I’ve had to make a drastic change, God has had to make me VERY uncomfortable where I am! I am in the midst of a big change with one of the ministries I’m involved in. It’s a great change, but God had to really make me squirm in the existing situation.

    I hope you guys get settled in smoothly.

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  5. Heather Cotten says:
    February 22, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Too funny. I hadn’t thought about literal v. figurative box thing but oh so true :). I will be emailing you for those numbers, Chip!!

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