An Evening of Transition

Tonight I sit in a living room with no furniture on which to sit, except for a butterfly chair from my old dorm room stuff. This afternoon the old couches were moved out to clear the way for new ones coming tomorrow. I’m sure I make quite a picture. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I find this night of transition between furniture to be quite appropriate.

In just a little over a month in Raleigh, I’ve experienced quite a bit. Lilly’s Pizza (a hole-in-the-wall joint that has an amazing lunch special), North Carolina-style BBQ (which I don’t really recommend), indoctrinating 2 friends into making monthly sugar cookies (see pics below), a Durham Bulls game (WAY fun!), weekly trips to Harris Teeter (the highlight of my week), a weekend get-away to Myrtle Beach, and even hosting a party for 35 of my closest friends! (We seriously had about that many people over on Sunday night.) And I’ll tell you what – the end of my “summer” (even though I’ve been teaching, since my school is year-round), has been wonderful.

But as fun as it’s all been, these things aren’t why I moved. And tomorrow is the first day of living out my real purpose in moving to North Carolina. Tomorrow I “matriculate.”

ma·tric·u·late/məˈtrikyəˌlāt/
Verb: Be enrolled at a college or university.

Tomorrow I begin new student orientation at Southeastern. I admit to being more than a little nervous, but rather than list the reasons, I am choosing to remind myself of God’s faithfulness.

In Acts 18:24-28, Apollos, who “had been instructed in the way of the Lord” was taught “the way of God more accurately” by Priscilla and Aquila. Later “he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.” I am encouraged in my own life because I have been taught the truths of scripture from the day I was born, and tomorrow begins a process of learning even more accurately. I look forward to the day that I am able to powerfully defend Jesus as the Christ in public as Apollos did. Feel free to pray for me on this journey.

So as I sit in my butterfly chair, I thank the Lord for continuing to bring about change in my life (even though I often resist it.) If there was never a change, there would never be a transition. And we’d miss out on all God desires to teach us in preparation for what’s to come.

Enjoying the Transition,
Jaye

Isaiah 43:19 “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”