Moving Day

This little mother moved into a tiny apartment tucked within an old fence post a couple weeks ago. She regularly comes to check on her nest and it amazes me to watch her slip into that thin slot to feed her young. She’s fast! It was hard to capture even this blurry photo.

~~ To Bloom Where We Are Planted ~~

It must be a pickup truck moving day today!  It’s June 1st and all morning, pickups of every color have been traveling these four corners in every direction loaded with mattresses, couches, refrigerators etc probably trying to beat the thunder storms predicted for this afternoon.  I’m enjoying the scene from the front porch as folks move house - to and from this apartment filled city neighborhood.  

As I watch, I think about all the different kinds of moves we each make in a lifetime.  I’ve made few house moves in my adult life, having lived with this view for 40 years already - after starting our family in our first home of 15 years.  

Yet in those years I’ve moved from being a new mom to being a great grandmother.  From raising a large family to being empty nesters and later on to the foreign realm of widowhood. I’ve moved from being a mom to being also a foster mom, to volunteering and to running a small book business.  From my childhood understanding of faith,  to traditional Christian views, to a passion for gender equality - including the need to use inclusive language in our understanding and worship of God.  

So many moves on this long path.  So much packing away the old, unloading the new, regrouping and moving on.  So many blessings!  Yet so much of what I started with remains.  From my faith to my children, my love of books and writing, to the furniture of early days which one day will be carted off in pick ups to a senior lodging I suppose - another fresh start and regrouping to adjust to.

Some of our moves are losses. Some gains. Each one contains lessons, seeds of new blessings and gifts to build on.  May we each strive to watch for the gifts, grow the hidden seeds and endeavor always 

to bloom where we are planted.

JoMae
6/1/19