Seasons

This season…

This season isn’t forever.

This season has been dry. It has been lonely.

A wilderness.

A desert.

Dark.

Cold.

The wife of an addict is not something I’d ever imagined I’d identify with. Yet, here I am.

I long for peace in my home. For steady. For reliable. For easy. I don’t see that coming anytime soon.

This season is hard. This season is dry. Seasons don’t last.

Have you ever seen a picture with something full of life, bright and beautiful blooming right in the middle of a snowy winter, or a bone dry desert? That’s how God has shown me love this season. Right in the middle of the dark, dry, cold...there is a glimmer of life. And it’s beautiful, and perfect, and reminds me that dark seasons don’t last. That morning is coming.

He doesn’t call us into comfort, does He?

I can tell you that when I’m on vacation, laying in the sun, reading a good book, and I’m relaxed, and warm, and cozy, and comfortable...it’s easy to forget how much I need Him. Easy to settle into the comfort and forget to cry out to the One who created all good things.

But in the desert. In the wilderness. In the dead of winter. I’m desperately searching for Him. Begging Him to hear me, to see me. Asking Him to change whatever is in me that needs transformation. I’m in His Word, and I’m learning more about who He is and who He says I am.

This season isn’t forever. This season is hard. But, I know I need it. I know I’m growing closer to Him, and isn’t that the end game, here? Not to live a life of comfort, and ease. But to KNOW HIM.

Praise Him today for whatever season you are in. If it’s easy, PRAISE him for that! If it’s more of dry season, then look for the glimmer of life, and PRAISE him for it all. For the dry that is growing you closer to Him, and for the speck of life that reminds you of the HOPE we find in Jesus.

Seasons don’t last.

His unfailing love does.