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Blessings in Boxes

Thank you!  Thank you for receiving and welcoming my family and I.  We feel very blessed to be a part of what God is doing at Williams Memorial United Methodist Church.  We look forward to our future together in Jesus Christ.  As I emerge from the chaos of moving and the sea of boxes that has been my family’s life over the last few months, I have come to realize that unpacking boxes can be fun.  Our family jokes that it is like Christmas or your birthday all over again.  There is a new awareness that comes with each item that you unpack.  As you come across items that you had in the old location, you look on them with new eyes.  Some items become less useful.  You realize that if you never unpacked them in the old location, why are you moving them again?  Other items, you look at and realize that you forgot you had something so cool.  And that item gains new prominence in the new location.  Some things have meaning not because ...