In our house, yesterday was the end of summer.
The summer of a mostly empty house, with our teen and twenty-something kids working, volunteering and traveling. The summer of cleaning, purging and refreshing our house. The summer of perfect weather, lazy mornings and unparalleled quiet.
With today’s dawning, the window to summer is closed and fall commences. Today school begins, with the courses, the activities, the schedules of autumn giving us need for the organizational skills which have lay dormant for the past two months.
Our autumn begins back in high school, for me … grade 10, for our ‘baby boy’ … grade 12, for our ‘baby girl’ … final year of university, for our first born girl … autumn number twelve for hubby, in his role as pastor.
There is change in the air of autumn, of this autumn.
Our international student graduated high school in June, and we being this autumn with no student, renter or boarder.
Our son has chosen to not play football, and hubby will not be coaching.
I have moved from middle to high school … from grade 8 to 12.
We moved our son’s bedroom from the cave to the penthouse.
This year I one I have been praying about for months. You see there is change in the air of this school year, with one daughter graduating from high school and the other completing her undergraduate program. We cannot know yet what our household will look like a year from now, with our first born looking at grad schools in the east, and our youngest daughter looking at L’Arche communities around the world.
Change will continue to be in the air as our autumn turns to winter, to spring and back to summer again.
Normally I love change, I live for change, new, unique, and doing things ‘out of the box’, but the unknown changes to come in the next year(s) make me a bit more uneasy.
With the changes of season, occupations, school years, residence, family and any other small or big alteration to our lives, we do have one thing that never changes.
Jesus Christ never changes!
He is the same
yesterday,
today,
FOREVER.
Hebrews 13:8
As we embrace the changes that life places in our hands, may we constantly remember that not everything changes, and that there is the One oft called our rock, our anchor, our cornerstone who is the forever the same, unchanging.
Welcome to another new season of life!
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