Under new management

(Original appeared June 2, 2016)

Deb and I have been dealing with a bit of guilt, thinking of how once the mourning process is complete we might actually find joy and comfort in returning to our old routines. I say that we feel guilt simply because thinking this way seems as though we might just gloss over our precious 44 days with Jacob as though they didn’t happen. But, we are quickly recognizing that there is something different going on in our lives. Returning to our old normal is not what is happening. We’ve been changed forever, and so even our old normal is forever impacted.

We have undergone a significant transformation during all of this. The transformation we have experienced (and frankly, are still enduring) seems to go hand-in-hand with another significant change in our lives: baptism. When we come to faith in Christ Jesus (typically through baptism), we become “under new management”…