Difficult Changes in the Early Church + How Jesus Teaches Us to Accept Similar Change Today

Keywords

discomfort with change, housing instability, adaptability

Abstract

I think I’m a rather typical human. I don’t like change.

Some years ago, my wife and I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. We couldn’t afford the astronomical housing prices. Not intending to devise an ingenious plan for surviving without housing that we owned or rented, we stumbled upon the opportunity to house-sit during our years in the Bay Area. Every three to six weeks we moved into a different house. In less than 30 months we have lived in something like 25 different homes in nearly a dozen different cities from Mountain View to Palo Alto and Belmont to San Carlos and everything in between. The majority of our personal belongings were packed away into storage. We only carried with us what we could pack into two small cars. All that became more complicated when we adopted our first child (while we were essentially homeless) and the belongings we had to transport multiplied by two. I’m still not sure how the math on that one works out.

Original Publication Citation

Difficult Changes in the Early Church + How Jesus Teaches Us to Accept Similar Change Today, July 16, 2019. (Republished on LDS Living on July 15, 2019. Republished on the Deseret News on July 18 print edition. Spanish translation available at here, July 26, 2019.)

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

2019

Publisher

LDS Living

Language

English

College

Marriott School of Business

Department

Marketing

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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