In Every Season
Man, I love Spring!
The weather is getting warmer. The days are longer. The flowers are blooming and it’s time to start my little garden. There is one thing I don’t love about Spring, however. Allergies. Allergies make me long for Summer and boy, do I love Summer.
Summer just screams “GO OUTSIDE!”. There is just a mandate you have to answer during Summer to dust off the pollen, stretch out on a towel, and lay in the sun. Going to the beach and watching kids play in the sand is a must followed by fishing the day away at the river. There is, however, a limit to my joy of summer. Summer in Texas tends to get hotter as the months go by causing my love for it to fade and my desire for Fall to strengthen.
Fall is my favorite season. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to last as long as the other seasons here. That is why when it comes I try to do everything I can to take it in! From taking pictures in pumpkin patches to roaming around in corn field mazes, I try to take part in all things Fall. What I don’t like about Fall is “Fall Back”! Ugh, why!?! Why must we still do this? That’s probably why Fall seems short because it starts getting dark at 4:30pm making my body want to go to bed at 7:30pm. I have never needed help in wanting to go to bed early, but when 7:30pm starts feeling like midnight, I don’t like that.
Then, blows in the Winter season. Being a Texan, I’m not a huge fan of cold weather. I like it for about a week, which is long enough to make a pot of chili and bake some cornbread. Then my body says, nope! Bring back Spring! I’ll take the allergies over the cold, ha.
As physical seasons come and go, it always reminds me of spiritual seasons as well. As it says in Ecclesiastes, there is a time and season for everything. There is a time to be born, to die, to cry, to dance, and the list goes on and on.
It always brings me hope because, just like with physical seasons, there will always be things we love about life and things we don’t. The hope comes from knowing, “this too shall pass.”.
I don’t know what season you are living in. It may be a season you love, it may be a season you hate, it may be a season you loved at one time, but now you long for what’s next. Whatever your state, know things will change. Whether that brings excitement or sadness, we can always rest in the truth that it will be good.
Just as we see with the beautiful season of Fall, it yields to death making way for Winter that will then bring in the bloom of Spring allowing for a vibrant life in the Summer. Each season is needed and purposeful to bring about what’s coming next and what’s next is growth.
Whether it feels like it or not, you are getting stronger with every passing season. It will be uncomfortable at times, but it is needed in order for your survival and, yes, you will survive. Whatever that survival looks like, when you surrender to God, the creator of all things, He will bring you through whatever season you are in better than you were before. Unfortunately, Winter doesn’t end right when I want it to. I have to wait it out, making me really appreciative of the new season I am walking into.
So trust the process. Trust your Heavenly Father and know He’s gotten all of us humans this far for thousands of years. Whatever time we have left on this earth, rest in knowing the season you are in is strengthening you to be ready for what’s next.
