My recent trip back to Prescott Valley reminded me that you really can't go home again. Unlike eternity, life for us is linear. Our lives flow like a river, from point to point, event to event, experience to experience. This is why it is so important for us not to waste time or to miss opportunities.
Because of this truth, life moves on for people. And once you change your location or your situation, life moves on for you and for those that used to be a part of your world. We think that once you leave, and then return, that things will be as they were when you left. Parents think that their children will never change once they move out on their own. Pioneer pastors think that their mother church will be just as it was when they were sent out forever. People and places can look familiar, but they are quite different.
Prescott Valley is filled with familiar people and familiar places. But once again I left after this trip realizing that it is not home for me anymore. I have old friends there that I have know for many years. But I have friends here and one day, should the Lord tarry, they will be old friends too. I am grateful for my new home, my new friends, my new church.
Life is like the turning of a page in a good book. You never know what the future holds until you, by faith, turn the page.
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