Have you ever truly taken the time to watch the seasons change? The slow progression of the trees changing from green, then to yellow and finally to the beautiful fall oranges and reds? Or noticing the weather shifting slowly from sweet summer breezes to the crisp fall air that leaves frost on the grass? It really does progress slowly but most of the time we are too busy to notice it in it's full glory. For me it feels as though one day I wake up and it's 85 degrees and sunny and the next day I'm running back into the house searching for last year's winter coat. How do we miss the changing of the seasons? I think it's the same as when we feel the drastic change from one season in our lives to another. We're just cruising along (at a much faster pace than we should be) and all of the sudden we feel slammed into something new. Things shift and somehow we've missed seeing it coming. It's like when you're driving on a long stretch of road and ten minutes goes by before you realize that you've not paid a single bit of attention to where you're going yet somehow you're getting to where you need to be and making great time.
The season of life I've been in recently has been challenging and it has come with major changes. I certainly did not see it coming nor was I prepared for it in anyway. But really, can we ever be prepared for the seasons to change? It's never the same. Sometimes they move slowly and other times they come so quickly that we can't even seem to get our bearings. The one thing I do know is that we serve a God who knows what season we're in AND when the next season is coming. Now, saying that is much easier to hear than to accept. But let's grasp this concept that I've been chewing on. What is our real issue with the seasons changing, whether good or bad? Is it lack of control? The need to "feel prepared" or maybe just wanting to brace ourselves for the impact it may have on the comfortability of our lives. Whatever it may be, I'm learning that I need to get out of the way. Get out of the way of what God is trying to do in me, what He may be trying to protect me from. I need to try my best to see the good in the season that I'm entering into and the season I'm exiting. It's not always easy to be removed from a season you're enjoying because it's easier to stay where you are and it's so, SOOO comfortable. That's actually part of the reason it's good to enter into a new season. It stretches us, brings us better things and until we're on the other side of the current season, we don't even have the capacity to realize we needed to leave it. There is always good in a new season but finding that good is truly about mindset. Let me preface that I in no way have conquered this mindset of finding good in all things, but in these changing times
, I've had to try my best to work a little bit harder searching for the positivity behind change. I thought as I got older, the changing seasons would get easier but boy was I wrong. The older I get the more tired I am and the less I welcome said change.
So for now, my decision is to rest in this new season, embrace the change that I'm facing and trust God to handle the details. Besides, He already knows what's coming, it's just up to me to believe He's got this.
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