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Settling in After a Move
Writer: Susan Miller
Source: Christian Woman Today
9 steps toward feeling settled in your new home
1. Don"t expect things to be the same in your new location as they were in the old one, or you"ll be disappointed.
2. Focus on what you have here, not on what you had there.
3. Accept being where you are.
4. Send samples of your new culture to your family (seashells, fruit, rose petals-whatever is typical of your new area.)
5. Send "a piece of who you are" to friends (favorite book, recipe, poems, verse-whatever you love)
6. Let go of expectations that you"ll move back.
7. Dwell on the positive and not the negative.
8. Write your family or friends and tell them how much you cherish them in your life. Written words are keepsakes!
9. Find a church. When you have found one, you are home.
~ Susan Miller has moved 14 times and has been married 38 years. She has two children and four grandchildren, and lives with her husband in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Excerpted from After the Boxes Are Unpacked, by Susan Miller. Copyright 1998. Used with permission. To order, visit Focus on the Family, or in the US, call 1-866-justmoved.
©Copyright 2007
Copyright material is used here as a resource for movers and should not be reprinted without first obtaining a Permission To Reprint from the publisher/author.
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