Transition: Coming Through The Tunnel

This picture shows my plant and my small ceramic elephant as the first two objects  in my new home with a storage Pod outside. It has been a long, transforming transition.

In November of 2014 my mom died, I stayed in Florida most of the time through April on 2015 to close out her home. Then in July 2015 I put my house on the market. There were complications and it did not sell right away.

I found a new Condo to buy and waited for it to be built. The first closing date was  December of 2015. The ground was barely broken by that date as it came and went. My home of 19 years finally closed on 1 March, 2016. There were complications and my new home was not yet ready.

I moved in with friends and waited. The next closing date came and went. I was able to move into part of the model condo immediately next to mine under construction. There were many complications and several more closing dates came and went.

I felt like I was in a long, often dark, tunnel with a light at the end that grew. The light at the end of the tunnel expanded at different speeds, almost stopping at times. The process of  my character development over these past years has been a mixture of life and death. Not so much in the physical sense, but certainly in the spiritual sense. I experienced death to myself as my expectations were not met, but light and life as I learned to yield to God’s best timing.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)

Now I am through this transition tunnel! New things are beginning. I think I will be learning from these particular twists and complications for the rest of my life. It was not easy! But I am grateful to be in this space that the King of Kings has given to me to live in and use for His purposes.

I strongly believe it is worth the wait.