It’s a new year with new ambitions and new hopes. The idea of a new year is that this year will be better than the last, and our resolutions are geared towards wholeness – some might even say the perfect life. But what happens when you’ve been in one place 430 years and God calls you elsewhere? What happens when that “elsewhere” isn’t quick or convenient? How do we find peace in the mist of a wandering, uncertain, imperfect world? We long for the Promised Land, but let’s not forget all the ways we encounter God along the way.