My office was moved again last week \u2013 this time into a \u201cRetirement Office.\u201d It is my seventh office in twenty-two years on the Southwestern Baptist Seminary faculty, and my last. My wife won\u2019t let me bring all the books and file cabinets and pictures home. So I have two options: keep teaching as an Adjunct Professor, thereby keeping an office, or die, in which case my entire library will go to the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. Spiritually, I\u2019m ready to die. Physically, I\u2019d like to teach a few more classes. Speaking of spiritual, I need to draw something spiritual out of this situation or this will cease to be the Monday Morning Memo it was intended to be. For me, at least, life has been a series of moves \u2013 some geographical, some vocational, some emotional, some spiritual. Hopefully, all have been directed or at least, allowed, by God. This last move \u2013 to retirement and a retirement office – was a bit more traumatic than I had anticipated. As has been my custom over the years, I looked to God\u2019 Word for help. Standing in the midst of the Areopagus in Athens, Paul said, referring to Jesus, \u201cin Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28).\u201d I trust that last week\u2019s move was \u201cin Him\u201d and I pray that all of your moves this week will likewise be \u201cin Him.\u201d<\/p>\n
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