Reflecting on Change

Big change is coming. 

LK's parents are about to embark on the step of downsizing from house to apartment.  LK's dad just started his retirement.  So they have a great big adjustment to make in the coming months.  We have been thinking about them lots in the past few weeks. 

The idea of retirement seems infinitely far away.  We both feel that we are still actively building our careers.  We have yet to set down permanent roots, having lived in an apartment in Toronto for ten years and then being guests here in a First Nations community for the past four years.  LK completely changed professions when we moved up here, from church musician to classroom teacher.  I never feel that I have 'made it' to mastering teaching (I suppose that is lifelong learning at work).  So we both feel that we are still working towards the peak of our professional lives.

Every once in a while we get the itch to find that little place in Ontario that will be our picket fence.  A community with a church that nourishes us deeply, a school system that will inspire our kids to grow into their gifts, and a little home that belongs to us.  We wonder where that place could be.  Will it bring us close to family in the south?  Will it keep us here, serving a community that we have grown to love deeply?

As we see, from a great distance, LK's parents move from the home that we have such wonderful summertime memories in to an apartment, we are reflecting on where we may be at that point in our own lives. 

Where will our adventure take us?