A Season for Everything

Oh my, how many times have I heard this saying in the last 15 years??? A LOT. And it is so true! I even have a button at the top of my blog to remind myself and my readers of this truthful statement. There truly is a season for all that we do. "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the Heavens" Ecclesiastes 3:1

Many, many times I have clicked on my blog and stared and stared and then stared some more. I LOVE writing and things would surface to write about but I just didn't/couldn't do it. It wasn't writers block. I don't know what it was. Fear of being judged? Scared to share true feelings? Worried I'd be boring? At a loss for interesting/new topics? Not sure of what areas of our life to write about? Needed a new layout? You name it. Excuse after excuse but the truth of it is, who cares! This is MY blog and I write from my heart.

So after a 3 month writing break and a blog makeover (you like?)...I'm back. My "season" is back and ready to roll. I chuckle as I write this because I'm pretty sure I have written those same words "I'm back" in previous blog posts. Oh well...

I have really embraced most of the seasons of my life so far. I appreciated all of them, I learned and grew from them and they made me a better person. With each new season, comes renewed faith and adoration for all the good, consistent things in my life. I see other mom's who struggle adapting to the new life of having a child with special needs. I see the young couples who have a young child and the silent persecution they endure from strangers. I see the husbands and wives who struggle financially. I see the women who's faith waivers because they are not being fulfilled spiritually. I see the couples who juggle work around each other so they don't have to put their child in daycare, but yet there marriage has no room to flourish because of it. I see the mom's who are filled with despair and anguish over decisions to be made for their child with special needs. I see friends who use the word a little too loosely and aren't really friends at all. I have experienced ALL of those seasons my friends. Some good, some really good, some bad and some really ugly. I wish I could hug each person I encounter (though affection is NOT my love language) going through these seasons and tell them, one day you will look back and be thankful in many ways! Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds ~James 1:2. I have had a wonderful life so far, FULL of blessing after blessing, but that life has been paid for with the price of some hurdles along the way. Would I change any of the seasons I have endured? I don't think I would. I have gained far more than I have lost by all life has thrown my way. I hope you feel the same when you reflect on your own life.

As I embrace the next season(s) of my life, I am reminded of these verses and I hope you find comfort in them too:

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

I am eager and excited to see what God has in store for me and my family!

What has been your most rewarding season to endure?