More Change

There's change in the air. Three couples that I know well have left our church. Denise has opened a thrift shop to help people coming out of jail. Teresa is graduated and is moving into a trailer with friends. I'm doing what I didn't want to do, getting trained to substitute in Portsmouth schools. Need the money.

So, everything changes. I made a mistake and clicked onto my copy of Danny's blog this week. It made me sad. He was so talented and so honest. But we have to grieve to heal. It took awhile to get through it, though. Our church is known or going to be known as a healing church. Healing of bodies, emotions and marriages. I know so many marriages that are tanking, but God can heal them if the parties involved cooperate. Ray's body can heal completely. It's possible. He's a miracle just to be alive.

Change is painful but necessary. I never liked it, even when I knew it was for the best. I guess I'm just a stick-in-the-mud. I like to build my nest and stay there. But God can't do His best work if nothing changes. So I should get with the program. Gonna be a "goalcoach" for a woman at the HER shelter for battered women. We'll see how that goes.