Moving to a Strange Land
Moving into a Strange Land Bec and I have moved numerous times due to my being a Methodist pastor appointed to different churches at the Bishop’s whim. Each move, of course, has its challenges, but none seems to be as ominous as the one we are about to make in mid-April…tax day, as a matter of fact. We are moving to a retirement community. Here is the story: Before we moved to NC, we would visit our son and his family on a regular basis. One visit, we heard that Elizabeth had taken her father to this particular retirement community, and she loved it and told us about it and suggested that we look into it. Well, we did and we liked it enough to make a down payment on an apartment but was told, up front, that it would be five or more years before one might be available. But in the mean time, if we decided not to go, we would get our deposit back. Soon after we made the decision, we moved just a two minute walk from our son’s home whi...