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6/8/2007 |
Alisha and I are spending most of the month of June traveling around to visit our friends and family before we leave for Vienna on June 30. It's been fun for me. I think for Alisha, too. We spen most of this week at my grandparents. Tomorrow we're driving to east Texas to see Alisha's grandparents. We're excited.
June is a month of changes for a lot of people in our families. Alisha's sister is getting married on June 16. My Grandma and Grandpa are moving from the house they've lived in (out in the country) for 30 years to a house in town. I know they're ready to move to a place that requires less upkeep, but I've never known them to live in any other house. My grandma's sister, Sharon, passed away last Monday. It hit our family hard, but it hit the whole town of Holdenville, OK pretty hard. Sharon was a very sweet woman, and just about everyone in Holdenville knew her as such.
I think ours is a culture that strives for a normalcy that doesn't include change. We want to think that change is abnormal, and we're afraid of it. We tend to be intimated by anyone who'd embrace change or deviate from what is considered an acceptible path in life. I guess, in some ways, that is why it's such a big deal when people leave families, homes, and jobs to serve the Lord. You don't have to leave these things to serve the Lord, so why initiate that change? For some people, even though they're in favor of missions and service, this is outlandish.
A lot of times I'll see politicians talk about how "everything" changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This change is what allows our country/government to act in ways that were unacceptable during the previous period of "normalcy." Mayberry is gone; now there is only Mount Pilot. Of course, we tend to forget that Mayberry was always fictional.
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