This Is Not Our Year. . .It Is Our Season
Sunday, February 14th, 2010January 1, is always New Year Resolution time. I am not condemning that practice. Nor will I quote the statistics and numbers that document the percentages and number of resolutions that are broken by January 2, January 7, within two weeks, thirty days, or whatever it may be. I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions 20 years ago. It is not important to set a goal for one or more changes every year just because that is what a lot of other people are doing and because it is a New Year. It is important to set one or more goals for changes regularly. Every month, week, and sometimes every day.
In the process don’t get a Goal List mixed in with a To Do List. That is another subject that will be dealt with in another post this week.
It is important to remember A Year is just A Year.
12 months. 365 days. 8,765 hours.
But a season can be short or long. A season can be 1 minute or 10 years.
Years end.
Seasons change.
Our good seasons give way to our trying times. Our challenging seasons subside to allow the good times to come through.
Our fruitful seasons come after a season of nonproductivity.
After a season of calm with nothing much happening, we are able to move forward.
When we look at a period of a year, we expect things to change one way or the other at the end of the year. A season, on the other hand is sometimes unpredictable. The last 10 years have seen weather conditions around the world defy traditional seasons. People have changed. The promises of life have caused seasons to change. The problems of life have caused governments and countries to change. All within their own season. The blessing about a season is that no matter what happens, seasons change.
I am going through a particularly rough season now.
But I know eventually it will pass. I am learning a new lesson every day. I am learning about my resilience, my weaknesses, my bad habits, my good practices, my strengths, the lives and loves of those around me, I am discovering a lot. Some things I like. Some I don’t. But in a season you make adjustments and rest in that time. How long will this rough season last? Only God knows and because I trust Him, it will not be rougher or longer than I can stand. But please know this, when December 31, 2010 ends and January 21, 2011 begins, I will be at the end of another year. I may be in this season. I may be in a new season. But whatever the Season, it will bring far more than the year will.
I can give you many cliches as I end this post. But let me share this with you. You know the year will do what it always does.
I personally challenge you to embrace your season, no matter how difficult. If you can embrace it, learn from it, when it passes, even if it is difficult, you will be richer and more stable for the time that has been spent. Years end. Seasons change.
