Moving Day: A Brief Reflection

The movers have shown up and now we are beginning the final part of our move from the apartment where we have lived for the past two years to our new house. During the past two years, I have been an Interim Minister, Denise and I have cared for my Dad in Hospice care in Minnesota, and finally we began the process of retiring from active ministry. In the past year life has been unpredictable and somewhat chaotic.

Yet in the midst of it all, we have discovered moments of beauty, wonder, and joy.

As I reflected on all that has happened in life and in ministry, I turned as I often do to one of my spiritual mentors, Howard Thurman. These words from his book Meditations of the Heart spoke to me the words that I needed to hear today.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

My prayer for my family and for you, dear reader, is that we will find that joy and peace.