Seasons

The Lord has really been teaching me about seasons lately.

It seems like once we enter a new natural season, it takes about a month for us to begin to long for the next season to come around. In the winter, we long for spring to come awaken nature. In the spring we long for summer fun and sun. After a few weeks of Texas heat, we wish for the coolness that comes with October. Then we begin to dream of firesides, snow, and sweaters.

I find myself doing this in the seasons of my life. I wanted to be a teenager. I wanted to drive. I wanted to be in college. I want to be married. Instead of dwelling in the season the Lord has me in, I become consumed with the next season. It is then that I miss the crisp winter air and forget to soak in the sweet fireside fellowship as I long for the newness of spring.

I will never live in this season again. And when this season is over, I must not continue to dwell in it. I must accept each season for its beauty and it woes.

I have been blessed with an opportunity to make much of this season by leading a small group for our campus women's ministry. We will be traveling through a book called 7. This book is about simplifying our lives and find Christ to be our sufficiency - not things.

I am so excited to do this with a community of young women who are convicted by consumerism. I pray that as we clear the material items from our lives that our eyes would be opened wider to Christ.

More information about 7 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Fv_w5183g&feature=youtube_gdata_player