May 2, 2007: Is Life Just One Huge Transition?

When we are born into this world, we transitioned from being a thought in our parent's and God's heart to being a part of humanity. As life went forward we transitioned through many things, such as different grades in school, moving to new locations, through the joys, trials and tribulations of friendships, going away to college, beginning new jobs, getting married, and having children. Is life just one huge transition? How do we deal with transitions? What is the final transition? Being a Catholic I have faith that my final transition will be from this world into the arms of God. While this answer feels ambiguous because of the inability for it to be tangible in this world I do find comfort in the notion that the transitioning will finally end!

Currently it feels as if my life has been in flux. Ten months ago I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to begin my first ministry position in campus ministry. I've read that moving to a new location on the stress scale is only second to death of a loved one. In the past ten months I have had two bosses at work, a third is pending, have broken up with my ex-boyfriend twice, dated other men after the second break-up with my ex-boyfriend, transitioned into a more adult understanding of my faith, the reality of poverty and immigration, and the world in general. My family in California is also transitioning, which naturally, being a Hispanic affects me. Transition is a part of every aspect in my life at this moment. Although all of these transitions are difficult to understand and difficult to deal with, for some reason, I know that these crosses will bring forth a resurrection. And while the resurrection for me is hard to see I know that God’s hands are leading and holding me to the next phase in my life. However, what I question is, once there is resurrection in these areas of my life, what will be the next transition? How will I deal with the transition? Why is it that when one finally feels at peace with some aspect of their life that another aspect of their life begins a new transition?