As we prepare for fall and winter, I think about the seasons changing. We are blessed to have four seasons here in Colorado, and as much as I love the warmer weather of spring and summer, I could not imagine living where there is no change of seasons.
Today, let’s reflect on the seasons of change in our lives. As summer began, I felt a shift in my life. This shift was more about one season of life ending and a new one
beginning. The shift wasn’t drastic, but I could feel it happen in my heart. As told in Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.”
In thinking about my own transitions, I can’t help but think about what the men of JOH have experienced as the seasons change. This last season was not the greatest for me. It may have even been my toughest yet, but it has carried many lessons that have helped me grow. Even if a season is difficult, I think experiences like the one that just ended for me, are the most transformative. With great perseverance in following God’s will comes great reward. I often feel like after our men work hard to change their paths, their next season will hopefully come with great rewards. Just like when one season ends and another begins, they are also made anew. Genesis 8:22 talks about how we are reminded of enduring the nature of God’s wonderful creation, and with the natural changing of seasons, there is also divine order and stability that comes with belonging to the natural world. “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Amen,
Opal Hatfield
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