The Lonely Mover

This week I sat down and realized in a month I'll be moving for the 16th time in 14 years, counting all the places I lived during college. I've found with each move a period of transition and loneliness follows. After each period of transition God has provided a new friendship, new growth, and many blessings.

Four years ago I moved to California and was lonely and blue. Then one day around Christmas all of the sudden we had developed a life time friendship with a couple. We are even Godparents to their kids.

Then they graduated and moved to a different state while we moved to D.C. for the summer. I was lonely in D.C. for about 2 weeks. God faithfully put a group of women in my life that I met almost daily to explore the city. I still keep up with one of these women through the blog world.

After moving back to California I resigned myself to loneliness. Before I even started to dwell in self pity God placed another group of lifelong friends in our pathway. These friends still enrich our lives.

After graduation we moved back to our hometown. The loneliness set in and then God blessed us with a great church group. It was here I met a group of women that helped during my pregnancy and post-partum stage.

Then we moved for the husband's clerkship when the baby was 10 weeks old and I was still going through post-partum depression. I was so overwhelmingly lonely, but God placed me in a mom's group and gave me a friend who I'm going to miss terribly the second we move.

We are now in the process of moving back home. I have friends, but yet I'm now not working full time so there will be a transition that I feel will require some loneliness. I'm looking back at all the moves and lonely times and am not quite as stressed. After all, after each lonely period growth and friendship blossoms.