As I set and watch the snow fall today in Indiana, I am thinking about seasons. Seasons change. What does snow provide for us? Snow is good for the soil, it’s a beautiful sight to see, people love to play in it, but snow can also be dangerous if we don’t heed warnings about driving in it, or going out into avalanches. Life is a like that for us! It can be beautiful if we navigate it correctly but we must also heed warnings that are sent our way at times about what to do, or what not to do. When we don’t find comfort and enjoy the season we are in, no matter how hard, we don’t see the meaning in that season, and what it is trying to teach us. What happens when we don’t like the season we’re in, is we try to make things happen on our time, and we end up making things worse. Sometimes we cause that season to last longer than it would have if we had just accepted where we were at that exact moment.
Just like the weather, life has seasons. Seasons of sickness, seasons of lack, seasons of growth, seasons of education, seasons of abundance, seasons of joy, seasons of peace, seasons of unrest. People hate change, I am one of them. But the older I get the more I understand the importance of change and the different seasons. I don’t always like it, in fact, sometimes I hate it, but a stagnant life isn’t a productive life.
Sometimes when life is good, and it’s pretty close to perfect, we take things for granted. We get lazy, we don’t grow, we don’t learn, we don’t help others, we’re not always thankful. If we can get to where we see the good in every season then maybe we can start to see life’s purpose for us, and we won’t fight the seasons that bring us to uncomfortable levels. We need to get to where life isn’t the highest highs or the lowest lows. What would happen if in every season, in every change, we simply give God thanks for where we are and try to see the bigger picture?
Maybe you have to get so tired and uncomfortable with your current weight and health to wake up and realize you need a change. I know I did! Maybe you have to get sick of taking meds that maybe you wouldn’t have to if you were healthy. Maybe you have to get sick of the way bad food makes you feel and lack of exercise makes you feel, to really start taking your health seriously. We are only given one body! I love the quote that we see so often that says if you don’t take care of your body, where will you live? I don’t know about you, but I want to live a long life and there are ways I can help make that happen! I know people get sick that are healthy, bad things happen all the time, but all I am saying is that if it is within your power to live a healthy life you should!
Maybe things have to get uncomfortable at work to push you to what is ahead for you. Maybe things have get uncomfortable with your co workers to make you realize you need to move to a different department. Maybe that might be the push you needed to catapult you to that big promotion or to that department that really utilizes your strengths where you grow and find fulfillment. Maybe being uncomfortable causes you to leave your current job and follow your dreams to what you really know in your heart was meant to be your life’s purpose.
All I am trying to get us to realize is if life was always a bed of roses, if life was always comfortable, we wouldn’t grow, we wouldn’t change, we wouldn’t be pushed ahead so maybe we should spend less time crying around, feeling sorry for ourselves, asking God why am I here right now, and try to see the lesson, and the bigger picture for our life.
I think personally I needed to stop for a minute today and just enjoy the beauty of Gods creation around me. Not try to figure anything out, just enjoy this season I find myself in. I am definitely in a season of growth right now, but I feel stirring in my spirit that my season is about to change. I understand I needed this season, even more than I think I let myself admit. How can you change your perspective today and find peace where you’re at? I pray that you do!
With love for you all!
Shauna
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