“I didn’t want to move to Illinois. I hate it here, and my dad keeps moving us every time he gets promoted for his stupid job. Sure, we got rich, but I got more lonely. It’s not even worth it to try to make friends anymore. Life was so much better for my family in Tennessee. I find it hard not to hate him for moving us six times in the past 14 years.”
Stories like this have been told numerous times in offices over the past 35 years from angry young people trying to adjust to a new life in Chicago. The story is often the same, a young person in isolation, making poor choices, anxious about getting involved in school and church activities, and too depressed to do much of anything.
These situations don’t just affect young people. Transitions and unwanted change are hard for individuals of any age to deal with.
We want to examine how the Bible addresses adjustment difficulties and more broadly the experience of unwanted and painful change.
What is an Adjustment Disorder?
Counselors at BCC regularly meet with people struggling with seasons of life transition.
Painful change can be the result of divorce, death, dysfunction, distance, damage,
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