The Flock You Will Always Tend To

What is it about transitions that is so scary?
Perhaps it's the newness and lack of familiarity.
Perhaps it's the loss of what we leave behind.
Perhaps it's a scenario in which we aren't in control.

And yet..

There is something so blissful about transitions, too.
There is something so freeing, so gracious, so merciful about them.

In the lack of familiarity you are familiar.
In the loss of things and relationships you continually build.
In life and in death you are always in control.

Thank you for being the God of all transitions,
and for being our God in the midst of them.
We are free to rejoice and cry and cower as we will,
for we are your people, the flock you will always tend to.

Thank you for humbling us through times of transition,
For insisting that we are but dust, and that you are eternal.

Thank you for Christ, who felt the weight of transitions, even to the grave.
In his victory we smile at the days to come, unknown to us as they may be.