The internet is full of (often bad) advice to help you move on. No matter what you want to move on from - a relationship, a job, a house, a pet squirrel - there’s always a ‘self-help’ guide somewhere to ease your transition into a better, brighter, future. But some of the advice out there is just plain odd, and leads to weird occurrences. There are stories of ex-lovers burning everything that their former partner has ever touched and ex-employees removing all contact they could have with a former job. Others still taking it even further and physically expunge all evidence of former connections with a colonic irrigation!
One thing is for sure: humanity has yet to master the art of moving on, which is weird because we spend so much time having to move on. Even before you hit 20 years old you’ll have moved on from two schools, possibly a college, and in many cases the house and family you’ve grown up in. So if we’re going to be doing all this moving on, you should probably figure out how best to do it. Ask the group: • Do you feel ready to leave home? What about school or college?
• Do you feel nervous about ‘moving on’?
• Which bits of those are most worrisome?
• What things have you had to move on from?
• How easy have you found it to do so?
• What has been difficult about moving on?
• What’s the best bit of advice you’ve heard about moving on?
The Bible talks about moving on. It talks about life as a journey, and there being different times and seasons for everything. Read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 and Philippians 3:12-14 as a group and then discuss these questions:
• What stands out to you from these passages?
• Do these passages contradict each other?
• How do you think these passages relate to what we’ve been talking about?
• Do you think we should move on, or hold things tightly?
• Can accepting the need for change make it easier?
