Life. It's such a series of waves, it ebbs and flows.
There are phases, swells, seasons.
I think part of maturing is learning to ride the waves with grace, and to understand that everything is but a season.
What feels like the end today is hope tomorrow. What is painful today gives strength for another day.
Nothing is forever.
When we learn that life is so much more than what is happening in this moment, we can live more gracefully because we know that tomorrow will be new...it will bring new things, new emotions, new people, new routines.
Being in the moment can be beautiful or painful, seamless or complicated, healthy or ailing. And the moment is certainly one to be lived, experienced, held. Each season must be given space to unfold so that we're ready for the next.
Without summer we cannot have fall.
Without winter, there is no spring.
The difficulty comes when we see no end to the winter we are in. We don't understand why summer can't last forever. But we can't experience the peaceful, beautiful seasons in their fullness, we can't be truly ready for them, unless we walk through the dry and lonely seasons first.
Life is coming. And with life there will be richness. And richness will certainly cycle through to autumn and winter again.
Life. It's such a series of waves, it ebbs and flows.
Dwell in the moment and know that it is preparing you for what is next. Summer is filling you for dryer times. And know that in times when we feel weak, there is beauty being prepared under the soil so that, when the time is right, life will burst forth in full bloom once more.
So keep walking, my friends, and stay strong in this season. We won't be abandoned in winter. It is simply preparing us
for spring.
*Ecclesiastes 3:1
1 comment:
I really liked this post. :) I completely agree! I think the moment(for me right now, the season of sorrow) has to be fully lived and absorbed, without dwelling on it or hanging onto it once it starts to pass. When we have bad or down days, I think it is OK to acknowledge that lowness of spirit. But it is also good to be present and in the moment when good days come along too! There is no need to wallow. It is amazing how the human experience can be so painfully intimate and personal while simultaneously being so much bigger than ourselves and part of a larger tapestry that just keeps being stitched on and on into infinity! -Katie
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