Walking The Walk

 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1 Last week, I attended my 40th high school reunion. It started on Friday night when we all met at our high school for a football game.  The next morning, we toured the high school.  That evening there was a nice dinner.   A s we were exploring our old high school, I was struck by how much some things had changed, and how little other things had. We all noted that everything seemed a little smaller than we remembered it.   I was struck with just how much each of us had changed.   Some of us had experienced serious health issues already.  Some faces I barely recognized, weathered by four decades of life's joys and sorrows.  Most I recognized right away.  But what hit me hardest was the memorial table—photographs of classmates who had passed away.  We've lost twelve out of our class of 88 graduates.  Cancer, accidents, heart attac...

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.  ~Ecclesiastes 1:9  One of the most difficult challenges we experience, is navigating the constant and continual changes we experience in life.  Just about the time we get used to things being one way, something changes.  And there's a mix of good changes, and bad changes.  Things that bring us joy and things that bring us sadness.  Sunshine and rain. We celebrate a new job.  There's a new baby in the family.  Maybe we move to a new town and begin a new adventure.  Those are all things that can bring us joy.  But sometimes we suffer losses as well.  Somebody we love passes away.  We find ourselves in a bad situation in our finances.  We have a relationship that begins to fail.  We have a medical issue we're dealing with.    And sometimes we will get into a cycle in life where we become overwhelmed with all...