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A human life is often defined by its transitions. \u00a0The experiences of growing up, changing schools or jobs, and finding a partner are some of them. Sometimes these transitions are more dramatic, like joining a people or coming out of the closet. In each case, however, we must consider how we will approach our transitions, how we will enact them, how we are changed by them, and what we carry with us from them. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, too, is the transition of the Israelites from wandering in the desert to dwelling in their homeland. When arriving at the Jordan, the camp of Israel stops overnight, as if savoring the imminent crossing and preparing for it. \u00a0With some instructions and collaboration, Joshua leads the people to split the Jordan, and to cross it together into the Land. <\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua and the Israelites have to take something with them from their crossing, though. One person from each tribe carries a stone from the bed of the Jordan into the Land with them, with which they will build a monument. In other words, they were not allowed to merely cross the threshold without looking back. Something of that liminal space needed to be with them as they entered their new reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is similar to transitions in our own lives. No one merely crosses the threshold from one state of being into another. Something about that crossing\u2014an emotion, a memory, or perhaps even something physical\u2014remains with us even after we cross, to remind us of where we have come from as we move toward where we are going. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not enough to get through a moment of transition. 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