Welcoming others goes beyond a friendly handshake. Moving is hard. In addition to packing your belongings and boxing up your memories, you also have to acclimate to new surroundings. A new grocery store. A new traffic pattern. Even a new local news team on TV. Everything is new and nothing is familiar. That won’t last forever. What is new will eventually become familiar. Things will become comfortable as you adjust to your new normal. We all
love familiarity because what is familiar is comfortable.