Life's seasons

Winter seems to be arriving after a string of unseasonably warm January days. The wind is sharp, strong and stings against my bare face. Taking my breath with it. It is that time of year when the gray sky seems to be the only color against the bare trees. Life sometimes finds you in a season like this. Ever been there? Like your heart and soul are hard,cold,lifeless. It is in times such as that when the smallest ray of light breaks through with hope. In our winter, we look for that ray of light that we take for granted in our Springtime. We cling to the smallest sign of it. It is for this reason , I feel, that God allows our winters. Our focal point becomes so precise and we are so hungry for life that He is all we want. We seek Him so fervently and eagerly that we refuse to look towards anything else. We talk to Him more frequently, more passionately and more honestly than at any other time. I do not know what has found you in a winter. Death, divorce, financial problems, illness. I do know, however,that when everything else seems to no longer make sense, there is still one constant. I also know that seasons are for just a time and are made to change. I pray that if you are facing winter, that you are able to use it for a time of close communion with God and a time of growth in your walk. Search that gray sky the situation has cast on your horizon for the ray of light. It is still there,behind the clouds perhaps, but it is there nonetheless. Let the quiet of the winter allow you to converse with Him loud and clear. It may be a time of more growth than you ever thought was possible in the harsh winds blowing all around you. Come springtime, the strength and fruits you can show were quite likely planted in the hardness of a winters ground work. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) ~ "One of the sheep"