I have just started reading Andrew Mayes' "Beyond the Edge: spiritual transitions for asdventurous souls". In the first chapter he explores the idea of transitions and the impact they make. He refers to some of the big transitions that will happen for all of us at various stages in life.
He emphasises the point by comparing what we may face with the impact that starting his ministry and leaving all the familiarities of Nazareth will have had on Jesus. The Nazareth of the time will have been a fairly small village. Setting off on an itinerant ministry of preaching, teaching and healing was a big step to take.
Mayes highlights the importance of being rooted in prayer to take us through the times of transition and uses some helpful imagery - "prayer - experienced now as a turbulent place, with eddies, whirlpools, rapids and unexpectedly strong currents; a torrent where boulders, other detritus and rubbish get forced along. The river of prayer becomes a place of attrition and erosion,. where stones get their corners knocked off. But prayer can at the same time be experienced as a place of profound transformation and creativity, where a new identity is being shaped and formed - waters can break down and build up."
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