There are a few certainties in life, as sure as you were born you will die, no matter what country you live in you pay taxes and change.
Roughly two years ago my life drastically changed. All of my paradigms shifted, and not a little more to the left or right, more along the lines of a grand canyon creating shift. Every foundation that I had set as an adult was rocked and set on something stronger than my own strength. Once I was set down on The Rock, everything else started to spin.
It all started in a basement playing pool with some friends, went around the world to fourteen different countries with roughly forty friends who became family and now Im in Georgia. Just because I’m back in the States change is still whipping around me.
The beginning of this semester was marked with my CGA class dwindling down to 8 people. I have only been in Gainesville for nine months and I have said goodbye more in these nine months than I think I have consecutively in my entire life. I don’t like to say goodbye. I’m not a huge fan of change. But God clearly is, and because He is my Rock, I am free to stand on Him and let those around me move.
BUT IT’S HARD!
I want things to stay what they were…except they never were just RIGHT at ONE point. They’ve been right at so many points.
It was right when Chip, Suzi and I drove through Vermont and New Hampshire in the night to make it to our next Christian music festival on the recruiting trip this summer. It was right when a group of us were laughing so hard on the couch of our house that we cried. It was right when a group of us sat around a fire and shared embarrassing stories. It was right when Jessica Robbins and I took the kayaks out for a couple hours and spent most of the time talking. It was right when my roommate Naomi and I would have dance parties in the morning.
And it will be right again. So even though more people are moving, more change is happening around me, I know God has something great in store for them and for me.
Change is constant, I’ll stand on the Rock who is steadfast.
