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by Susan Miller9 steps toward feeling settled in your new home
- Don't expect things to be the same in your new location as they were in the old one, or you'll be disappointed.
- Focus on what you have here, not on what you had there.
- Accept being where you are.
- Send samples of your new culture to your family (seashells, fruit, rose petals-whatever is typical of your new area.)
- Send "a piece of who you are" to friends (favorite book, recipe, poems, verse-whatever you love)
- Let go of expectations that you'll move back.
- Dwell on the positive and not the negative.
- Write your family or friends and tell them how much you cherish them in your life. Written words are keepsakes!
- 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. Click here to e-mail Susan.
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.
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