Lately it seems that songs from my past keep coming to mind. One that has been frequent is “Basics of Life” by the group 4HIM, which was released back in 1992. The first verse says, “We’ve turned the page, for a new day has dawned. We’ve re-arranged what is right and what’s wrong. Somehow we’ve drifted so far from the truth, that we can’t get back home.”

Change has never been something that caused me anxiety. I am a person who is equally fine with consistency and with the unknown. One of our sons is stationed in Germany with the USAF and was preparing for a deployment which was going to last close to when it will be time for him to return to the states.

It was hard for me not to chuckle. The declaration sounded like something I would have said at his age. We were playing a “Lighthouse family” game of Scattergories, something we periodically do as part of our weekly Lighthouse Connect meetings. We ask everyone to participate, so there were probably 50 students and adults split into four teams.