At the church that I pastor we've been doing a series entitled "Change & Growth". It's been a time of transition for us as a congregation (new name, now new location) so the theme has come in handy.
My question for myself, you, God, the universe in general, is: do we ever stop being in the season of transition? Even as Andrew and I grew accustomed to marriage, our in-laws, our new house, our new pets, our jobs, etc. there were other areas taking their turn at the Wheel of Fortune.
A new haircut, a birthday, traveling...even the seasons keep us actively adjusting to change. Today, for example, I left the house sweating (a friend, without exaggeration, tweeted this about Toronto's recent heat wave) and had to buy a cardigan at lunch because I'm shivering at the office.
I guess that's why Jesus called the Holy Spirit "The Comforter" and didn't promise us constant comfort.
During the whirlwind that was the time leading up to my 30th birthday and afterward, I failed to post a finale for my 30 Before 30 countdown. I think the first thing I decided to do in my 30s is NOT MAKE LISTS OF MORE THAN TEN ITEMS.
So I came up with a new list: 10 In 10. In the next decade I aim to:
- Become a mother.
- Have three books published.
- Read all of C.S. Lewis' works.
- Travel to Italy.
- Move to High Park.
- Take vocal lessons.
- See everyone in our small group happily married.
- To collaborate with Andrew on a CD.
- Sharpen my prophetic gift.
- GET MY DRIVER'S LICENSE.
A man thirty years old, I said to myself,
should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done;
for after that it is summer time.
- Lew Wallace Everything
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
At twenty years of age, the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done;
for after that it is summer time.
- Lew Wallace Everything
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
At twenty years of age, the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
