Moving Day!

Tonight we hope to move much of our belongings from Grand Haven into our new residence in Norton Shores.    Yeah!  Then, Saturday we will move the remainder from this mountain of boxes at church.  You are all welcome to help!  We may even be sleeping in beds by 10PM at night!


This has been a long process of making our home in MI.  There has been many moments of anxiety and lost sleep.  We have left many good friends in MN and have begun to make good ones in MI.  We have put in much effort (as have others from church) to make this house our new place to live.  I have missed too many family meals and bedtimes.  It has gotten very old to come home and hear, "Yeah, Daddy is going to eat dinner with us tonight!"  


We have been anticipating this next step in our MI journey for a long time.  Presently, Grand Haven is called home but it is merely a temporary residence, not our home.  We haven't unpacked much at this house because we have bigger plans.  We haven't put energy into beautifying the Grand Haven house because we plan to continue the process of making the Norton Shores house our home.  After all, it is all a process.  Someday this year I hope that I and my family will be able to call the Norton Shores house our home.


I hope that I can have the same focus on my heavenly home too.  This life is to be lived to the full but it is not our final destination. We should invest some energy and focus here but always remember that this is not our final home.  It should not be confused with the end of our journey.  It is only a taste of real life, a glimmer of what is in store for us.  


I want to have the laser sighting on this life like that of the last verse of "It is well with my soul".
And Lord, hast the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

That will be a cool moving day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjGZqp59RZg

Settling In

We are in the middle of the moving process and settling in.  Normally this process is untidy at best.  We are so thankful to all those who have helped us move all of our boxes to Michigan even though we and our belongings await our final destination.  There are many plans still being made for our eventual home and we look forward to arranging it with our belongings.  Mostly, we hope that we will be settled before too long so we can begin life in our new place.  Good people like those we have met already will help speed along this process.

The biggest factor in moving is knowing when you are settled enough so that this new residence is now your home.  Some people move their belongings across the country but never get to the point where they feel settled.  They never feel like this new place that they now live is their home. It is difficult for them to begin life in that new place.

Do people do that with God?  A person like this comes to know Jesus personally and they becomes a follower of Jesus along the road of life. Yea!  Angels celebrate! In theological thinking, their new residence is no longer earth but with God in heaven.  But it is not that people don’t like their new home but they never totally get comfortable with it.  They never settle in and start their new life of working for God’s Kingdom.  How sad.

My family and I covet your prayers and patience as we settle into our new home in Michigan.  We look forward to beginning life with those at Celebration Community Church.  May we all as followers of Jesus settle in to our heavenly home so that we can get to our work for God’s Kingdom, that this kingdom will be “on earth as it is in heaven!”