marching orders

from http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-things-change.html

It isn't just retiring [officers] that cause things to get shuffled around. Must be that time of year.... My mother's beloved pastor, who has been there forever and knows every single person in his [corps] and every single thing about them, just left last week having been transferred. I know another [officer] who was just moved.

Any of us could get our marching orders any day. That's our job.

It's a shame that people can't get their brains around why these changes take place in the first place. Oh sure, it's true that in this case the [officer] has retired. But [officers] are moved around all the time for a lot of reasons. Your new [officer] has caused a domino effect. Wherever he came from, he has to be replaced.

But more importantly we must remember our [covenant]. Our job is to become completely attached with Christian love to our [people]. Our job is also to leave and give that same unequivocal love and attention to the strangers that will become our [people].

We love everyone. We are attached to no one. Our relationship to you comes only through God, as we are all his children.