22 Mar Spring Has Sprung!
Spring has sprung and it’s almost the end of Women’s History Month. You goal getters are self-assessing your accomplishments against last quarter’s goal(s) or maybe you’re just excited about upcoming festivals, crawfish boils and juicy snowballs.
In short, the season has changed.
In a natural sense, we know that seasons change. There’s winter, spring, summer, and fall. Just like the natural seasons’ change, so do the seasons in our lives. But, the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “For everything, there is a season.” It also tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:11, “[God] has made everything beautiful in its time.”
This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with an old friend and we talked about some of the seasons of life that women experience. Presently, she and her family are taking care of her ailing grandmother. We chatted about the family’s frustrations and how the challenges of care have unfortunately begun to affect attitudes of the relatives directly involved.
I too once took care of an ailing parent around the clock. That period of my life was demanding in a way that I had never experienced, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. In retrospect, during that time, I was so focused on what wasn’t happening, that I wasn’t focused on what could have happened (being present and cherishing moments).
Some of us are taking care of our parents (or grands) and some of us are in another kind of challenging season. Challenging seasons are not forever, but while we’re in them we need to understand that where we determine the source of our challenge to be, we will also determine the source of our peace.
“….and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” – Isaiah 9:6
In a message entitled, The Path of Peace, Pastor Steven Furtick says, that “peace is not the removal of a problem …. or situation, peace is the presence of God.” The enemy of your peace is your insistence on perfection (or your consistent recognition of what’s wrong) in your challenging season. Your peace is not a feeling and it is not found in a place. It is the decision that you will make when you’re under pressure, that you’re going to trust God anyway.
Whichever season you’re currently in, whether it be winter, spring, summer or fall, remember that God is making everything beautiful in its time.
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:17-19
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