WEBVTT 00:00:17.390 --> 00:00:20.289 Hey there, beloved. Abram Wazingo here. And today 00:00:20.289 --> 00:00:22.530 on Radiant Stories, we will continue our mini 00:00:22.530 --> 00:00:25.329 series called Seasons. Each episode was recorded 00:00:25.329 --> 00:00:27.370 at our most recent One Day at Radiant event. 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:30.629 For our next episode, we're going to listen to 00:00:30.629 --> 00:00:33.009 Jessica Sandlin share with us about transitions 00:00:33.009 --> 00:00:37.890 in life and navigating them well. I've really 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:41.149 enjoyed listening to everybody speak and everybody's 00:00:41.149 --> 00:00:43.229 spoken about, you know, the four typical seasons 00:00:43.229 --> 00:00:45.689 in our life. But today I'm going to talk about 00:00:46.219 --> 00:00:49.140 the transition period in between the seasons. 00:00:50.380 --> 00:00:52.820 And every single one of us have that in common. 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.899 Some of us are leaving seasons. Eden, you good? 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:06.040 It's not loud enough? Sorry, I don't talk loud. 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:09.859 I'm not Neil. I don't talk loud. And I'm not 00:01:09.859 --> 00:01:12.140 going to be moving around like Neil does either. 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.620 No, Gabby, no. That's on me. No, but some of 00:01:19.620 --> 00:01:21.739 us are leaving seasons, some of us are entering 00:01:21.739 --> 00:01:24.000 seasons, and most of us are doing both at the 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.560 same time. And if we're honest, transitions are 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:32.519 rarely neat and tidy. They're often emotional, 00:01:33.219 --> 00:01:37.659 disorienting, and stretching. A transition is 00:01:37.659 --> 00:01:41.120 defined as the process or period of changing. 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.879 Two helpful synonyms. Every time I read through 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.900 this note, I have said, cinnamon. Cinnamon, and 00:01:48.900 --> 00:01:52.459 I got tickled at myself. I didn't do it. Synonyms 00:01:52.459 --> 00:01:58.000 are metamorphosis or transformation. Both describe 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.879 change that reshapes something at its core. And 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:03.540 one of the clearest pictures in nature that we 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.980 have of this is a butterfly. There's a story 00:02:06.980 --> 00:02:10.830 often told about a man who found a cocoon. and 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:14.389 noticed a tiny opening. He sat and watched the 00:02:14.389 --> 00:02:17.789 butterfly struggle to push its body through that 00:02:17.789 --> 00:02:21.830 narrow space. After a long time, it seemed stuck, 00:02:21.949 --> 00:02:25.030 so wanting to help, he gently widened the opening 00:02:25.030 --> 00:02:28.849 with scissors, and the butterfly slipped out 00:02:28.849 --> 00:02:32.569 easily, but its body was swollen and its wings 00:02:32.569 --> 00:02:35.789 were small and shriveled, and it never flew. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.300 What the man didn't understand is that the struggle 00:02:40.300 --> 00:02:43.520 through the narrow opening is what forces fluid 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.719 into the butterflies wings. The resistance is 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.979 what strengthens it. Without the struggle, the 00:02:49.979 --> 00:02:52.659 butterfly could not become what it was designed 00:02:52.659 --> 00:02:58.340 to be. Scripture teaches us that from the moment 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:01.960 of salvation to the moment we see Jesus, we are 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.860 in an ongoing state of transition or transformation. 00:03:05.289 --> 00:03:09.669 We are we were saved we are being saved and we 00:03:09.669 --> 00:03:12.330 will be saved from one degree to the next We 00:03:12.330 --> 00:03:17.030 are back inside the cocoon When I started thinking 00:03:17.030 --> 00:03:20.189 about this topic I spent a lot of time reflecting 00:03:20.189 --> 00:03:24.650 too and You know, we don't do that often enough 00:03:24.650 --> 00:03:27.050 I don't think I don't think we spend enough time 00:03:27.050 --> 00:03:29.469 reflecting and I this is something that I say 00:03:29.469 --> 00:03:32.569 to my clients often is It's really important 00:03:32.569 --> 00:03:36.530 to look back to reflect and not look back with 00:03:36.530 --> 00:03:40.409 regret, to look back with curiosity, not to look 00:03:40.409 --> 00:03:44.129 back with condemnation. So looking back, I was 00:03:44.129 --> 00:03:47.090 reflecting through just the different seasons 00:03:47.090 --> 00:03:49.009 of life that I've been through. And the first 00:03:49.009 --> 00:03:50.990 major transition that I experienced was when 00:03:50.990 --> 00:03:54.509 I was five years old. I was born in Michigan, 00:03:55.110 --> 00:03:59.389 Lantz, Michigan, in the UP, right off Lake Superior. 00:03:59.449 --> 00:04:02.129 It's beautiful up there. And when I was five 00:04:02.129 --> 00:04:04.860 years old, my dad got a job. that moved us all 00:04:04.860 --> 00:04:09.599 the way from UP to Dallas, Texas. And my entire 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.699 family was in Michigan. My grandparents, aunts, 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:16.100 uncles, cousins, everything I knew was there. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.360 And so we moved just the five of us. It was me 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.779 and my parents and my two brothers completely 00:04:20.779 --> 00:04:23.540 by ourselves to a completely different side of 00:04:23.540 --> 00:04:25.720 the country, a totally different state. And I 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.319 couldn't put words to it then. I was five. But 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:32.139 I felt the transition. I felt the disorientation. 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.610 I felt... the uncertainty of it and the stretching 00:04:35.610 --> 00:04:38.149 and the confusion of it all. You know, scripture 00:04:38.149 --> 00:04:40.089 tells us, as we've talked about today, that for 00:04:40.089 --> 00:04:42.730 everything there's a season. Life moves in seasons, 00:04:42.829 --> 00:04:45.769 which always includes the in -between, the messy 00:04:45.769 --> 00:04:49.410 middle, the process of changing. Some of us don't 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:51.430 like change. Is there anybody in here that likes 00:04:51.430 --> 00:04:57.670 change? You like change. That rings true. Yeah. 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.040 but most of us don't because it's uncomfortable 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.160 and it's unsettling and at times it's really 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:07.160 painful. James reminds us that every good gift 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.199 and every perfect gift is from above, coming 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.120 down from the father of lights with whom there 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.500 is no variation or shadow due to change. And 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:18.980 in Micah we read, for I, the Lord, Yahweh, do 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:21.639 not change. Therefore you, O children of Jacob, 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:25.779 are not consumed. So our lives are always changing, 00:05:25.779 --> 00:05:31.509 but God does not. So what is a transition? A 00:05:31.509 --> 00:05:36.589 transition is identity level reshaping. It's 00:05:36.589 --> 00:05:39.769 the space between who we were and who we are 00:05:39.769 --> 00:05:44.629 becoming. As I reflected again, here's a handful 00:05:44.629 --> 00:05:47.170 of identity level reshaping that I've experienced. 00:05:47.670 --> 00:05:49.930 I'm much older than you, Annabelle. I've gone 00:05:49.930 --> 00:05:54.470 through more. You're about to. But I went through 00:05:54.470 --> 00:05:57.279 transitions of moving states. You know, moving 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.600 schools. I didn't just go to one school. I went 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:01.339 to several different schools growing up. I had 00:06:01.339 --> 00:06:03.379 different churches, several different churches. 00:06:04.379 --> 00:06:07.779 You know, new friends. And then I go to college. 00:06:08.379 --> 00:06:11.360 And that's a whole other season of life and a 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.639 whole other transition period. I get married. 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:17.500 I become a mom. And now at 48, a completely different 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:20.839 career. And in every season, quietly asked of 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:25.810 me, who am I now? So scripture is full of transition 00:06:25.810 --> 00:06:29.569 stories. So just to name a few, Abraham, he was 00:06:29.569 --> 00:06:32.209 called to leave what was familiar before knowing 00:06:32.209 --> 00:06:36.389 the destination. Israel, they were in the wilderness 00:06:36.389 --> 00:06:41.110 between slavery and the promise. David was anointed 00:06:41.110 --> 00:06:44.730 king long before he was appointed king. And then 00:06:44.730 --> 00:06:47.370 Jesus, we have 30 plus years. I know that that 00:06:47.370 --> 00:06:50.189 number's kind of, I guess it's not really for 00:06:50.189 --> 00:06:52.089 sure. It was 33 years that he died, but you know 00:06:52.089 --> 00:06:54.759 what I'm saying. There was many years of hidden 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.639 life before his public life. Transformation always 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:03.959 involves three things, letting go, living in 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.839 the in -between, and stepping into what is becoming. 00:07:07.699 --> 00:07:11.480 And the in -between feels fragile. But God says, 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:16.519 see, I am doing a new thing. Therefore, he is 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.879 not only the author of our seasons, he's the 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.439 author of the transition as well. Just like the 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.579 butterfly and the cocoon the struggle is not 00:07:24.579 --> 00:07:29.379 punishment. It's transformation So as Pam mentioned 00:07:29.379 --> 00:07:33.740 earlier, I just Graduated I have my license as 00:07:33.740 --> 00:07:36.860 an LPC associate. So I have to integrate psychological 00:07:36.860 --> 00:07:40.019 aspects here Because it's very important and 00:07:40.019 --> 00:07:42.339 it's really beautiful because God made us emotional 00:07:42.339 --> 00:07:44.819 beings So this is very much biblical as well, 00:07:44.819 --> 00:07:47.100 but I wanted to do a little bit of research on 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:50.360 what research says happens to us as human beings 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.560 when we walk through transition, life transitions, 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.139 okay? There's four main things that happen. Number 00:07:57.139 --> 00:08:02.639 one, stress. Number two, temporary identity instability. 00:08:03.899 --> 00:08:07.240 Number three, emotional ambivalence. Ambivalence 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.939 means mixed emotions. You can carry joy and grief 00:08:10.939 --> 00:08:13.040 at the same time. You can carry excitement and 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.500 fear at the same time, relief and sadness at 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:20.639 the same time. And then uncertainty. But I think 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.420 a lot of times when we're in these transition 00:08:22.420 --> 00:08:26.399 periods We we maybe think that the difficulty 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:29.220 of it is the hardest part, but Technically the 00:08:29.220 --> 00:08:31.680 uncertainty of it is the hardest part. It's the 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:36.539 unknown But okay, can you guys attest to this 00:08:36.539 --> 00:08:39.919 these four points when you've been in between? 00:08:40.100 --> 00:08:42.820 Seasons of life you've experienced the stress 00:08:42.820 --> 00:08:47.169 the identity instability Right the mixed emotions 00:08:47.169 --> 00:08:50.090 and the uncertainty and so I want to normalize 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:53.610 that for all of us that that is Expected that 00:08:53.610 --> 00:08:56.450 is gonna happen. I have something in my mouth 00:08:56.450 --> 00:09:03.309 Like a fuzz or something Sorry Okay, so an example 00:09:03.309 --> 00:09:07.230 of a good transition would be when I became a 00:09:07.230 --> 00:09:11.549 mom I Mean, that's a wonderful transition from 00:09:11.549 --> 00:09:15.320 from going from being Jessica to being a wife, 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:17.980 to being a mom, that's beautiful. But there was 00:09:17.980 --> 00:09:21.259 still a sense of losing one identity and transitioning 00:09:21.259 --> 00:09:25.120 into a new one. And for sure, I was stressed 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:29.960 out. I was questioning my identity. I had all 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.360 these mixed emotions. I was terrified, but super 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.960 excited, you know? And then there was the uncertainty 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.460 of, like, how is this going to work out? Like, 00:09:37.460 --> 00:09:39.379 what is this child going to be like? How am I 00:09:39.379 --> 00:09:41.720 going to be as a mom? So even in the good transitions, 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:44.929 I was still experiencing these things. Okay, 00:09:45.269 --> 00:09:52.029 so jump ahead to 2022, which I would say is probably, 00:09:52.750 --> 00:09:56.409 to date, the hardest period of transition for 00:09:56.409 --> 00:10:00.970 me that I've walked through. So, 2022, after 00:10:00.970 --> 00:10:03.090 about 15 years of being able to stay home with 00:10:03.090 --> 00:10:06.549 my kids, I went back to work. At the same time, 00:10:06.570 --> 00:10:10.049 I went back to school. And at the same time, 00:10:10.129 --> 00:10:15.129 my son went to college. Okay, so enter stress, 00:10:15.370 --> 00:10:19.230 identity and stability, mixed emotions, and uncertainty. 00:10:21.590 --> 00:10:27.129 Back inside the cocoon, right? It felt like being 00:10:27.129 --> 00:10:29.789 squeezed through an air opening for almost four 00:10:29.789 --> 00:10:32.950 years. I'm just now kind of coming out of that 00:10:32.950 --> 00:10:35.649 cocoon season, but there's this squeezing and 00:10:35.649 --> 00:10:38.870 this pressing. During the last couple years of 00:10:38.870 --> 00:10:41.350 this particular transition, I read it, I don't 00:10:41.350 --> 00:10:42.970 know what book it was in, but Lisa Turkhurst 00:10:42.970 --> 00:10:45.250 had a quote that I actually wrote on a post -it 00:10:45.250 --> 00:10:48.070 note and put it on my desktop at work. And I 00:10:48.070 --> 00:10:50.710 looked at it every single day. And it said, what 00:10:50.710 --> 00:10:54.049 the Lord leads you to, he will lead you through. 00:10:56.350 --> 00:11:04.970 Not around, not over, but through. So, it is 00:11:04.970 --> 00:11:08.169 proven that the number one predictability of 00:11:08.169 --> 00:11:10.940 a healthy adjustment during a life transition 00:11:10.940 --> 00:11:16.799 is making meaning. Making meaning of it. As Christians, 00:11:17.539 --> 00:11:21.000 we have this. We have this with our relationship 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.899 with the Lord. We have this in scriptures. So 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:25.679 there's so many scriptures that I could pull 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.139 out for each of these four things. I'm just gonna 00:11:28.139 --> 00:11:31.759 name one for each. So for stress, 2 Corinthians 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:36.679 4, 8. We are hard pressed on every side, but 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:42.929 not crushed. Perplexed. but not in despair. Identity 00:11:42.929 --> 00:11:46.210 instability. You receive the spirit of adoption 00:11:46.210 --> 00:11:49.610 by whom we cry Abba Father. The spirit himself 00:11:49.610 --> 00:11:52.710 testifies that we are God's children and if children 00:11:52.710 --> 00:11:56.450 then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with 00:11:56.450 --> 00:12:00.610 Christ. Romans 8. The mixed emotion, I love this 00:12:00.610 --> 00:12:04.690 so much. Sorrowful yet always rejoicing. You 00:12:04.690 --> 00:12:08.029 know scripture is full of this. A third of the 00:12:08.029 --> 00:12:12.340 Psalms our lament psalms, starting with the how 00:12:12.340 --> 00:12:16.799 and the why to the who, right? So, sorrowful 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:21.039 yet always rejoicing. And then uncertainty. Trust 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:22.759 in the Lord with all your heart and lean not 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.019 on your own understanding, for he will make your 00:12:25.019 --> 00:12:27.340 path straight. So these are things that we can 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:30.039 be rooted in and grounded in, in the midst of 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.960 life transitions, knowing that this is gonna 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:37.720 happen. It's gonna keep happening, okay? So the 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.240 Christian life is one long transformation 2nd 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.100 Corinthians if anyone is in Christ new creation 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:48.019 2nd Corinthians 3 being transformed from one 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:51.139 degree of glory to another God is not just improving 00:12:51.139 --> 00:12:58.879 us. He's reshaping us I Graduated September of 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.580 last year. I Started working full -time as a 00:13:02.580 --> 00:13:08.690 counselor this year February And I'm saying goodbye 00:13:08.690 --> 00:13:12.750 to friends that I made at this job that I had. 00:13:12.809 --> 00:13:14.649 The Lord provided an amazing job for me during 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:16.649 this transition period and I developed great 00:13:16.649 --> 00:13:18.789 relationships with them, but now it's like I'm 00:13:18.789 --> 00:13:20.750 having to say goodbye to those and enter into 00:13:20.750 --> 00:13:24.429 new relationships. So the transitions haven't 00:13:24.429 --> 00:13:28.850 stopped. But I'm realizing that God does his 00:13:28.850 --> 00:13:33.350 deepest work inside the cocoon of transformation. 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.480 You know, we look back and the wilderness shaped 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:43.779 Israel, right? The waiting shaped David. And 00:13:43.779 --> 00:13:46.879 the hidden year shaped Jesus. The in -between 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:52.580 is a holy space. And here's our anchor. Jesus 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:55.700 Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 00:13:56.659 --> 00:14:01.779 He is the stable. He is the constant. He is unchanging, 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.409 right? In the midst of the uncertainty we experience, 00:14:05.870 --> 00:14:08.289 in the messy middle, we can be at peace knowing 00:14:08.289 --> 00:14:10.870 that he's our secure attachment. He's our anchor. 00:14:12.169 --> 00:14:15.929 We may not always understand the how and the 00:14:15.929 --> 00:14:19.850 why, but we can rest because we know the who. 00:14:22.289 --> 00:14:24.190 And that made me laugh, too, because isn't that 00:14:24.190 --> 00:14:27.899 a band? The who? I don't know. It made me think, 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:29.179 Anil, if he was in here, he'd probably laugh 00:14:29.179 --> 00:14:33.059 at me. But it's true. In the middle, in the messy 00:14:33.059 --> 00:14:35.120 middle, when things are just so confusing and 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.399 the Lord's moving us from one season to the next, 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.299 and we're in this in -between, and we're stressed 00:14:40.299 --> 00:14:42.720 out, and we're questioning, like, okay, I was 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:44.480 this then, and now you're moving me into this, 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:46.220 and I don't know what that looks like, and I 00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:48.240 have all these emotions going on, and I don't 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.259 understand what's going on. It's so uncertain. 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.620 The how and the why, we may never have the answer 00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:56.429 to that. I mean, sometimes He'll reveal it to 00:14:56.429 --> 00:14:59.070 us, but not always. But in the midst of all that, 00:14:59.169 --> 00:15:03.429 we can feel secure because we know Him. And He 00:15:03.429 --> 00:15:07.690 is our anchor. So even in the cocoon, we're held. 00:15:08.269 --> 00:15:10.690 Deuteronomy 33, the eternal God is your dwelling 00:15:10.690 --> 00:15:13.750 place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. 00:15:14.009 --> 00:15:18.429 I love that so much. Even in the cocoon, we are 00:15:18.429 --> 00:15:23.980 held. So developmentally, We move through life 00:15:23.980 --> 00:15:28.440 transitions. We go from childhood to adolescence, 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:32.159 adolescence to adulthood. Within adulthood, we 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.139 experience so many different things. We experience 00:15:35.139 --> 00:15:38.620 parenthood, infertility. We experience career 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:42.019 changes. We experience releasing children, aging, 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:46.399 loss, right? Different callings, retirement. 00:15:46.820 --> 00:15:48.620 So many different life changes developmentally 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:50.899 that we experience. Every single one of us, we 00:15:50.899 --> 00:15:53.639 walk through these things. But God is doing a 00:15:53.639 --> 00:16:00.279 deeper work of transformation. This year, I'm 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.259 already preparing myself. I have one kid in college, 00:16:03.659 --> 00:16:06.679 about to have another one in college. That's 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:08.440 a transition not only for me, it's gonna be for 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:13.200 her. Moving from home, out of the home, right? 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.000 Us getting used to her not being there. Eden 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.019 getting used to her not being there. Eden will 00:16:18.019 --> 00:16:22.299 be in high school this year. So still, Another 00:16:22.299 --> 00:16:26.460 cocoon, Susan, is on the horizon. But I see the 00:16:26.460 --> 00:16:30.080 pattern. And the pattern is, you know, I can 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.379 look back on all these different transitions 00:16:32.379 --> 00:16:34.899 that I've experienced, and I may not remember 00:16:34.899 --> 00:16:39.600 all the details of every one of them. I definitely 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.039 remember the details of this last one because 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:46.059 it's fresh. But the one thing that I do recall 00:16:46.059 --> 00:16:50.059 every single time is that God was faithful. Like 00:16:50.059 --> 00:16:53.450 he was there. And it didn't mean I had all the 00:16:53.450 --> 00:16:55.710 answers that I needed, but he was a constant. 00:16:56.230 --> 00:17:00.549 He was always there. And he never failed. His 00:17:00.549 --> 00:17:05.069 promises always come true. Joshua 21, not one 00:17:05.069 --> 00:17:08.750 of all the Lord's good promises failed. Not one. 00:17:09.630 --> 00:17:13.769 So nothing is wasted. Every squeeze, every stretch, 00:17:14.470 --> 00:17:17.029 every in -between is strengthening wings we cannot 00:17:17.029 --> 00:17:21.920 yet see. The Center of Lamentations the book 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.359 of lament Lamentations 323 says great is your 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.759 faithfulness the whole book is about lamenting 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.259 and At the center of it as great as your faithfulness 00:17:32.259 --> 00:17:36.400 and that is my testimony To the transitions that 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.400 I've experienced I'm sure it's the testimony 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.380 that you can experience like that is the one 00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:42.759 thing that always happens He is always faithful 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.720 He who started a good work, and you will carry 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.210 it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 00:17:50.890 --> 00:17:53.470 So I have a few questions for you to think about, 00:17:53.490 --> 00:17:55.130 and I actually will have a handout that if you 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:58.009 want to take home that has some different scriptures 00:17:58.009 --> 00:18:01.569 that point to those different, those four main 00:18:01.569 --> 00:18:04.049 things I spoke about that happen in transition, 00:18:04.150 --> 00:18:07.349 but also some reflection questions. But to close, 00:18:07.369 --> 00:18:08.710 I just want you to kind of think about these 00:18:08.710 --> 00:18:12.730 things. Where can you look back in your own life 00:18:12.730 --> 00:18:17.720 and see how God was faithful? What transition 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:24.680 are you in right now? Where do you feel the pressure, 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:30.980 the squeeze, the struggle? How is that struggle 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:33.440 forming you and preparing you for the next season? 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:39.539 See, you're not behind. You're not abandoned. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:45.180 You're being formed. And God is faithful in the 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:49.569 cocoon. Thank you for listening, and in case 00:18:49.569 --> 00:18:51.490 you didn't know it, subscribing, leaving positive 00:18:51.490 --> 00:18:53.329 reviews, and sharing on social media helps our 00:18:53.329 --> 00:18:55.589 stories to be shared with more people. 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