Change

Good morning, God, and thank you for today.  Thank you for the opportunities I have to experience life, to teach, to learn, to love, to share, to taste and feel and enjoy the many facets of life.  We're near the end of a school year, which means that for my wife and me, significant change is right around the corner.  We'll be moving to a new town in a new state in a few weeks, and I'll be starting a new job in a new school come fall.  Both of these changes mean new opportunities for growth and for meeting people and for facing and meeting challenges, and we both thank you for them.

Sometimes, though, I have to wonder why the conditions here reached such a point that we both felt that change was necessary.  We both know we have to leave here, but is that because you know that the situation here isn't healthy for either of us, or because of things that we've done or felt?  We know that our situation here is not at all positive for us, but is there something that we could have done differently to make it healthy, or is this simply your will for us, to put us at a point at which we really needed to make a decision that would matter in our lives?

Both of us feel your hand in this.  It's not like you messed things up just so that we would move, but we do feel that the message to move on has been very strong and undeniable.  Our goal is to heed those messages as best as we can.  We both know full well that there is a possibility that the messages actually were saying "Stay and help to fix things," but we also both feel very strongly that that's not the  case--the negative situations from which we're moving are deeply rooted, and the people in them are very much entrenched in their ways.

In any case, thank you for allowing us to see clearly when life is giving us messages, and thank you for giving us the strength to heed them.   Both of us feel that the move we're making is a very positive one, and we both want very much to make it.  And so far, all is going very smoothly with it, which we also see as a very positive sign that this was meant to be.  So thanks.