February 25, 2008

• Today after church I was sitting at a restaurant with a couple friends, lingering after everyone else had left. (We had arrived a bit later than the others because we had been setting up a flat screen television in the nursery.) As we engaged in random conversation ranging from the finer points of audio speakers to the practical realities of IT work, I was struck by the profound joy of such seemingly ordinary moments. And it occurred to me that it is so many simple yet priceless things like this that I will be giving up as I uproot and move to a new job and a new life in a new city. While I can hope to discover new moments and new sources of joy, I know that they will inevitably be different in character from what I have come to be familiar with here in Chicago. Thus, even if my new life turns out to be wonderful, it is nonetheless the case that the elements of my life here in Chicago will be lost, save the occasional reunion and the vagaries of an ever distant memory.

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