The world of Animal Crossing might be a bright, colorful oasis populated with cheerful activities to participate in, but that doesn’t mean we won’t experience some difficult moments… like when a beloved neighbor comes to us to let us know they are going to move on to a different town. After spending weeks, months, or even years of real-world time in the game together, the last thing we want to do is see them leave. But while saying goodbye can be difficult, it’s the only way new villagers can move in with fresh interactions and items that keep the game moving forward. Change can be unpleasant in a game that’s built around comfort, but it’s the only way to grow.

Throughout our walk with Christ, our comfort zones will frequently be disrupted by unwanted change as either we or our “neighbors” in life will be called by the Lord to move on to new places, different adventures, or perhaps simply called home. We don’t typically enjoy or appreciate these moments when they are happening, but it often takes a new set of neighbors to open up our eyes to new horizons. These moments may feel bittersweet to us (or just downright bitter) as the Lord pushes us out of the comfortable nests we’ve built, but it is through these changes that we grow in our dependence on Him and move forward into the new things He has for us to do.

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:1-4

Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19

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