Situation Normal: I Am In Transition

My friend Chris Austin shared an perfect illustration at our most recent Worship@8500 gathering in the high country of Colorado. It was wrapped around the understanding we have of seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall, and how these seasons reflect the Lord’s sense of cyclical life in all things. His proposed that we have failed to recognize that in our lives this same cycle of change is always at work in us because we constantly act surprised when most of our gatherings contain people who confess, “I feel like we are in transition right now…” Chris concluded that since all of life (aka The Lion King) moves in cycles where there is birth, life, death, repeat that it is foolish to keep resisting the pain and joys that accompany these cycles, or to keep pretending like our life in Christ will somehow help us live without transition and change. I believe these cycles really do represent the regular transitions that we are always making in life and that we were meant to make. We do not live a life that simply excels from one revelation to the next without repentance, or one strength to the next without pain, or one place to the next without loss. Transition is situation normal for human beings. (more…)