Seasons

Facebook is full of people (my friends) eagerly watching for spring. I guess it’s late this year and many are fed up with the wait…as well as flabbergasted by all the snow. I can’t help but think how this reflects on how life also works. We spend so many of the seasons we live in waiting for the next one. If there is too much heat or cold or rain…it’s somehow always wished away while we wait for the rain, cold or heat. I spent many years doing this. I was too cold or too hot and always waiting for something better. What a waste of time that ended up being.

Phases in our lives are like seasons. There are times for love, birth, death, and new beginnings. In Ecclesiastes chapter 3 it talks about thee being seasons for everything. When you read it to verse 15 it talks about how God has given them all as gifts to us. We need to embrace all of them. The good with the bad. The weeping and the laughing. The gaining and losing…literally and figuratively. When we are young we wait for age and experience…quite often losing ourselves instead of enjoying the journey. Seasons in our life are there for a reason. Even the hard ones. Death, financial loss, divorce…each one has a time and purpose in our lives. If we try to hurry them up without asking God to reveal His true purpose, they can be time wasted.

Even now there are days when I think “I am half way through life…what have I done? I need to hurry and accomplish something.” But, really? What does Jesus want to see happen in my life? Great feats? Great wealth and influence? Am I wasting another season while waiting for the next one? What does He want me to learn today? Who cares about tomorrow? What can I do for Him TODAY…something that will bring us closer TODAY…instead of scheming how I could please man?

Look at the season you’re in right now! Is it a season of plenty? Be thankful? Is it a season of hardship? Be thankful…yes, even through the tears. As you know, “this too shall pass”…no matter what. Relish the season you are in and embrace every day. Don’t look to the next season and wish for something better. Learn from this one. Stop and breathe. He is with you.