Moving Day Approaches

Moving day is two days away. Am I ready? No, especially since yesterday I got hit w/ a migraine and was pretty much unable to function all day after about 9:00am. Am I stressed? Yep, you bet. I'm trying to let it go though and focus on the positives.

I was thinking about a move we made when E was a baby about 8 years ago. I was a full fledged Goddess worshiping neo-pagan hippy at the time and had this big old Buddha statue. The friends who were helping us move were/are devout Christians and refused to carry the Buddha in their load. I remember at this being both really impressed by them sticking to their beliefs and really confused by their decision as well.

Well, here I am now these 8 years later completely joyful to say I am a Christian - though still a bit on the hippy side :) and I see even more clearly how challenging it can be to live out a life that honors my beliefs and ethnics and, above all, honors God in this modern, secular, new age culture we live in.

I appreciate so much to witnesses that their act of refusal was for me. There was no preaching on their part or yelling or judgment - just a calm and quiet refusal to do this thing that felt against their beliefs. It must have been a difficult thing to do as to outsiders it would seem like such a little thing to just put the statue in their car and drive - what's the big deal. But they stick to it and do so w/ respect and kindness for us in the process.

I experienced other acts of witnessing like this as well in those years leading up to my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my own personal Lord and Savior and I'm grateful to each and every one of them for helping to shatter some old beliefs and judgments I had that were part of what kept me from Christ for so many lonely years.