The Four Seasons

I’ve had the opportunity to live in several places here in the good ole USA. From Georgia to North Carolina to Texas to Florida then on to California and back to Texas again. All of them had their pluses and minuses.

Every place had its own unique version of the four seasons (for you city slickers I’m not referring to the hotel chain). North Carolina had a spectacular Fall and Winter. If you blinked in Texas you’d miss Fall completely but you’d cherish the bluebonnets when they were blooming in the Spring. And who doesn’t like an eternal summer in California with snow skiing as a bonus…in the same day? How about those laid-back beautiful beaches found only in the summers of Florida?

We humans do the same thing. We have our own versions of the seasons. I’ve noticed as I’ve grown older a lot of things have changed. Time is more precious. I try to let things go quicker and take risks more. Laugh more with friends and most of all try to not act like I have all the answers. Surprisingly enough I discovered I don’t!

Sometimes I catch myself longing for a time in the past when I knew all the answers and life was simpler. But back then I wanted more wisdom…the kind that only comes from experience. Now…I think I’m done with the whole wisdom thing…you can keep it. Life is too hard sometimes to learn from it!

It’s so easy to let our lives get so cluttered with stuff that we miss the seasons changing right before our eyes. We may not even like the changes but they come anyway. Instead of kicking and screaming that we don’t want a “summer” to end maybe we ought to look at what God is doing and just embrace it. Sound like a total surrender? Absolutely.

Funny thing is…when you surrender you don’t care about the battle anymore. It’s just over. And you move on.

Embrace the changes in your life when they come. You might see something you overlooked earlier…after all “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens.”