Over the past nine years, I have moved approximately SEVENTEEN times. Home to college and back several times. College to summer jobs. College to first job. First job to second job. Second job back to first job. First job (second time around) back home. Back home to seminary. And now, away from seminary...
Before heading off to college in 1997, I had never moved. Same home, same room, all my life. I loved the security.
This is definitely a choice I've made as I pursue God's calling. However, sometimes I realize how many Avon and U-Haul boxes I have filled and unpacked, only to start the cycle again. I am grateful for where I have been and am excited about what lies ahead. However, I wonder how long life will be like this: in boxes.
Any thoughts about your experience with life in a box? How many times have you moved in the past ten years or so?
It has been an amazing year. I am about to fly out. Excited to process. More to come. Thanks Jesus, and thanks friends, for a great year. You are loved.
Peace.
this is probably my thirteenth time packing up everything i own (or at least have in my possession at the time) since i graduated high school. i realized this year how tired i am of it. but yes, these are the choices i've made and all the places i've gone to have been worth the packing experience!
Posted by: kyledawn | May 06, 2005 at 10:25 AM
I think that I have moved 19 times since high school (eight years ago). It is hard to keep track. This includes living in four different states in the past four years. It makes it pretty difficult to fill out job applications that want you to tell them where you have lived and worked for the past five years! The moving seems to be a continuing habit that I am sick of, but can't quite shake free of.
Posted by: Jill | May 06, 2005 at 12:30 PM
I think I counted 19 moves between home and college and summer camps and moving to Idaho and back and now here...
It's not fun. I'm tired of it. I want to have a "home."
Posted by: Adam | May 06, 2005 at 03:04 PM
don't forget the "Huggies" boxes too!
Posted by: Reno | May 06, 2005 at 03:38 PM
i forget how many times i've moved, but, Lord willing, i'll be doing it again soon. this time to sell the house and go back to school, then on to seminary. the decision feels right. someone please remind me of that when i start complaining about dragging my stuff in and out of storage again.
Posted by: stephanie | May 06, 2005 at 09:20 PM
We already miss you, bro!!
Posted by: Zach | May 07, 2005 at 04:11 AM
Can anyone beat Jill with 19 times?
How could I have forgotten the Huggies boxes? (Reno had a few when we roomed together. He is a little old...and the contents of the box helped him.) Thanks, Reno, for the reminder of how useful the Huggies boxes were for packing. ;)
Posted by: Josh | May 07, 2005 at 10:31 AM
13 times! And I'm moving again as we speak...this time to my own home; hopefully this one will be a longer stay, but most likely not. Oh how wonderful it would be to be done! But, let's not be ridicoulous...I really do enjoy the adventure of change. ;)
Posted by: janelle | May 12, 2005 at 12:49 AM