Seasons

This Christmas season has got me thinking...its usually a time when we celebrate but Christmas also gets me thinking in a lot of ways...about my childhood because I miss my mother at this time, about friends with whom we used to have so much fun at Christmas time and also about a lot of people who are needy...Christmas is the season of giving and I make it a point to try and give as much as I can this season, but really this time I started thinking that its a season like any other season in our life...not weatherwise!

The Bible says there is a season for everything -
1 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.....

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

I have been going through a season of uprooting, and mourning, a season of refraining and searching, and sometimes downright tears....but I can rejoice knowing that seasons are not permanent and that after these seasons comes seasons of planting, rejoicing, embracing and giving up on searching questions...

This Christmas I can look forward to lots of good things coming my way...and so can you... Wishing you a very happy Christmas and lots of good seasons in your life...