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title: "Day 20 Moving Forward"
url: "https://biblicalibrary.com/16/when-your-whole-world-change/233/day-20-moving-forward"
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# Moving Forward

I’m feeling like I can move forward.

I’m beginning to feel that these difficult circumstances will end soon.

I want to celebrate and focus on my future.  
But then I feel guilty and feel that I’m betraying the people who have died.

**Life has recognizable seasons, cycles, and rhythms.**

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It doesn’t stop for very long. When the chaos of this disaster has passed, this poem from the Bible will remind us that there will be a time for mourning, healing, remembering, and eventually a time to step toward the future.

> There is a time for everything,  
> and a season for every activity under the heavens:  
> a time to be born and a time to die,  
> a time to plant and a time to uproot,  
> a time to kill and a time to heal,  
> a time to tear down and a time to build,  
> a time to weep and a time to laugh,  
> a time to mourn and a time to dance,  
> a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,  
> a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,  
> a time to search and a time to give up,  
> a time to keep and a time to throw away,  
> a time to tear and a time to mend,  
> a time to be silent and a time to speak,  
> a time to love and a time to hate,  
> a time for war and a time for peace.  
> *Ecclesiastes 3:1–8*

If feelings of guilt or betrayal are keeping you from moving forward, create a memorial. It may help you to step into the future. God instituted the practice of creating memorials for ancient Israel. He commanded the Israelites to build a memorial of stones as a way for them to remember how he helped them cross the Jordan River into the land that God had promised them.

**What would be a meaningful way for you to commemorate this difficult time in your life?**

**How can you celebrate the memory of people you’re missing in life?**