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When I was going into my senior year in high school, my parents moved us from El Dorado to McPherson for Dad’s job. I could not believe it! I knew they would not allow me to stay with my grandmother or a friend for my senior year. So I had to move and make the best of it.

Fortunately we joined Trinity Lutheran Church and I felt somewhat comfortable with people who worshipped like I was used to. Soon I began to feel at home with the other high schoolers who were in the Trinity youth group.

On the first day of school I was in classes with a few people I knew from youth group. They helped me meet other people. They were not the lifelong friends that I had in El Dorado but they were very welcoming and inclusive. I found myself feeling somewhat at home. My social life grew with friends who included me from the beginning. And I found new lifelong friends.

I was afraid of this move in a crucial year for me. I was not aware that this was God’s work on a very large scale that I happened to be part of. I did not realize that God was saying to me, “Be still and know that I am God.”

Changing locations can be a fearful thing for us. What will my new environment be like? Will I find friends? What will happen to me? When we are still and let God be God, good things that we did not know we needed happen for us. When we go to new locations and make our home with new people we find our world expands for them and for us. Trusting in God’s work saves us from despair.

Heavenly Father, please be with me through all changes I face in life. Help me make my home where I am placed and do your will always. Amen

Anita Dorf

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