546 1 Reason to Keep On

There are seasons in life. Seasons of Spring time growth, seasons of Summer sunshine and success, seasons of Fall beauty and peace, then there are seasons of Winter. This is the time in life where things are plain old hard. Where the struggle is real, the fight is exhausting and the attacks are relentless. This is the Winter season of life. Maybe you’re in one right now. You certainly know if you are. And maybe this Winter feels like it’s been four seasons long for you and you’re beginning to wonder if this will really ever pass. Will change come? Will the load you carry lighten? Will the sun shine again? Honey, since the beginning of time one thing has always followed the season of Winter … Spring. And it is promised, your Spring will come. Winter will not last forever. It won’t hurt this bad forever. It won’t always be this hard. Progress will not always come this slow. This is just a season, and seasons ALWAYS CHANGE. Everything in your life is in the process of change. Everything. All those hardships and struggles are changing. You can have hope. But also remember everything that is good and right in your life at this moment is also in the process of change and it won’t always be this way. You won’t always have what you have today, for the good and for the bad. Here’s what we can’t afford to do … we can’t afford to waste what is good today by focusing on what is wrong today. There will always be something wrong. Something that doesn’t work. Something that worries or frustrates you. Something uncertain. Something that did go wrong, may go wrong or could go wrong. But right in the middle of all those somethings is the fleeting goodness of your life right now. Don’t miss this. Life is constantly in a state of change and I’m discovering in my 40’s my body is now in a state of slow and gradual deterioration. I’m not being negative, I’m being real. My eyes no longer see as good as they once saw. My knees don’t quite feel the way they used to feel. My skin is now growing deep lines and creases from signs of age and my hair glistens in a new highlight state of silver. AND I’M STRESSING OVER NONE OF IT. Get your perspective right. What an honor it is to get to live long enough to see this! What a blessing it is to be gifted with the time we have been given and a body that is still trying. This is for my sisters in a Winter that seems 4 seasons long. In a time where you would just give anything to feel the warmth of the sun and see the signs of a new season on the horizon. To my sisters who have been reaching and climbing and you’re always second guessing if you’re good enough to ever get there. THERE’S ONE REASON TO KEEP ON BELIEVING … HIS LOVE. His love for you. Individually, purposefully, wholly for you. His love is the reason why you keep on believing even when you feel like giving up. Because his love for you comes with a good plan over you, and the power to make it happen. If you’re a mother, you know the power of your love for your children. Your love is the reason your child can trust you’ll be there. Your love is the reason your child knows they’re safe with you. It’s your love. And this is the love you are surrounded by, given to you by the Creator of the Universe. The master over all loves you with a ground shaking, mountain moving, sea parting kind of love. And because of his love, you have reason to keep on believing. Reason to keep on showing up in the hard winter seasons of life. Because you know his love will produce Spring. There’s a hunger in your heart, a fire in your soul, a desire deep within you, and his love put it there. These Winter seasons of hardship, struggle and setback threaten what is within you with the shadow of doubt.