"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1.
The change from bleak Winter to hopeful Spring brings to mind the fact that we all have seasons in our lives.
I believe this to be true everything we go through is in season and behind it is a reason.
We go through times of suffering to help us grow - not only for ourselves, but so we can be of comfort and encouragement to others as they go through difficult times. I think of this as the winter months, when it is hard to get enthused about going out in the cold.
We have times when we feel so invincible, we can take on anything and the smell of success is in the air we walk around smiling for no reason and it seems as if the universe is in sync with us. I think of these moments as spring when new hope and new life springs forth from the cold, hard ground.
I think of the summer as the times we are diligent, working hard toward a goal...perhaps even breaking a sweat in our endeavor. It does not have to be a physical sweat, but it is a time of labor. It is the season when we set our will and make progress in our lives.
We also experience times of rest, when the summer is over and the crops are in. We all need to have times of quiet times to reflect on who we are and what we have accomplished. This time of rest and rejoicing I think of as fall.
Just as seasons of the year change and bring with them new emotion and new experience, so does the seasons of our lives. Regardless of what season you are in, whether it be a time you want to last forever or a time you are suffering through it will come to a close and a new season will begin to develop in your heart. It may be gradual and change so subtly you hardly know it, or it can be as sudden as waking up one day and it has snowed on the spring flowers.
It never ceases to amaze me how everything we go through, if we do not cave in to it, and if we call on the strength we have available to us, is useful for a good purpose. I look back on my own life and recognize that my suffering has been immense some of it self-inflicted, some inflicted on me, but when I realized that all things can be used as lessons, that some good could come out of bad, my life changed. Now the times that should hang over me like a dark, oppressive clouds are the very things I draw on for strength, and use as valuable tools, to aid myself and others in a time of difficulty.
Open up to the lessons of your seasons and recognize that no matter how bleak the moment may seem, it is true that it is darkest before the dawn. Be grateful for life every moment, every season.
I believe this to be true everything we go through is in season and behind it is a reason.
We go through times of suffering to help us grow - not only for ourselves, but so we can be of comfort and encouragement to others as they go through difficult times. I think of this as the winter months, when it is hard to get enthused about going out in the cold.
We have times when we feel so invincible, we can take on anything and the smell of success is in the air we walk around smiling for no reason and it seems as if the universe is in sync with us. I think of these moments as spring when new hope and new life springs forth from the cold, hard ground.
I think of the summer as the times we are diligent, working hard toward a goal...perhaps even breaking a sweat in our endeavor. It does not have to be a physical sweat, but it is a time of labor. It is the season when we set our will and make progress in our lives.
We also experience times of rest, when the summer is over and the crops are in. We all need to have times of quiet times to reflect on who we are and what we have accomplished. This time of rest and rejoicing I think of as fall.
Just as seasons of the year change and bring with them new emotion and new experience, so does the seasons of our lives. Regardless of what season you are in, whether it be a time you want to last forever or a time you are suffering through it will come to a close and a new season will begin to develop in your heart. It may be gradual and change so subtly you hardly know it, or it can be as sudden as waking up one day and it has snowed on the spring flowers.
It never ceases to amaze me how everything we go through, if we do not cave in to it, and if we call on the strength we have available to us, is useful for a good purpose. I look back on my own life and recognize that my suffering has been immense some of it self-inflicted, some inflicted on me, but when I realized that all things can be used as lessons, that some good could come out of bad, my life changed. Now the times that should hang over me like a dark, oppressive clouds are the very things I draw on for strength, and use as valuable tools, to aid myself and others in a time of difficulty.
Open up to the lessons of your seasons and recognize that no matter how bleak the moment may seem, it is true that it is darkest before the dawn. Be grateful for life every moment, every season.
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What a wonderful post! I'm definitely following you! Your last verse was my inspiration for my last wall art from my beyond5 shop.
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