The title of
my blog is “Seasons and Perspectives”.
Seasons; because seasons, like life, have their time and their duty and
then they give way to the next season.
Perspectives; we all have various perspectives of our journey through
life based on our experiences and understanding of those experiences since
childhood. Our perspectives can mature
and change, but they remain as varied a snowflakes; similar but different. I don’t know everyone’s story and can never
know their perspective because I’ve never lived their lives with their understanding
and perspective of their life. What I do
know is that I can defer to God’s perspective.
His perspective in every season of my life can fill that season with wisdom,
clarity and peace that I otherwise wouldn’t have.
The thought
of seasons made think of Ecclesiastes and the author's discourse on seasons
which is sensibly based on what he’s observed. Everything has a season and a
time. In every season there is a time to do one thing and then another. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
I also believed that Christ has a time in my
seasons; He has a time to plant me and a time to uproot me. A time to kill something in me and a time to
heal something in me. A time to break
down my destructive habits and thoughts and a time to build up habits and
thoughts sourced in Him based on His truth, His love and His perspective. I also have a time to choose to do my own
tearing down, building up, sowing and reaping, destroying and healing. The season is mine. What I do with it and whether or not I let
Christ take the lead in every season is my choice. Every moment I’m given is just that; a
moment. I can take the moment to be kind, or be mean. To observe, or monopolize.
To speak or listen. To bulldoze or build.
I’m thankful for each moment because it is mine and it’s a gift and how
I live each moment is a choice. It’s my
choice. This life does anything but leave us powerless. Powerlessness or the feeling of powerlessness
comes only when we don’t participate in our moments. When we think we don’t
have a choice. By letting a moment be;
we have made a choice not to participate in it.
May your every
moment be passionately embraced and lived to the fullest, trusting in and from
the perspective and understanding of Christ and the very good work He is doing
in you-because of His great love for you.
