Monday, March 17, 2008

The spiritualist in me

To everything there is a season... that's just as true today as it was there a hundred years back. Each of us has experienced seasons in our lives. Times of happiness and times of sadness. Times of putting down roots and times of pulling them up. times of grieving and times of rejoicing. We know that there are times to be silent, and times to speak. Times to draw close and times to stay apart. Lord has made everything appropriate to its time.

these words help us understand that the ebbs and flows of life are natural, that we are not alone in the difficulties we encounter. But they also bring a challenge. Because they leave some of the choices about the seasons of our lives in own hands. Grief is a good exampls. While we don't choose our times to grieve, we do chose the duration of our mourning. Clinging too long to grief can blind us to other joys God sends our way. The same is true of hate. Clinging too long to this distructive emotion can harden our hearts. Likewise, clinging too long to baggage from our past can clutter our lives, leaving no room for anything new to enter.

While the passage provides the reassurance that we are not alone when we expeirence the diverse sesons of our lives, it also serves as a wake-up call. A reminder that sonetimes it's up to us to step from one season into the next. To go from weeping to laughing, from scattering to gathering, from losing to seeking. And as we move through these seasons, we have one advantage: an understanding of the purpose and plan for our lives, which the Lord provided during His time on Earth. We also have someone to turn to when we need guidance for our journey, when we need courage to chose a new season. Let us always remember the beautiful words from Matthew: 'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.' The lord waits for our call. Don't be afraid to ask Him for help as you journey through the seasons of your life.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i dont understand this, have never understood it...to me it seems, that the fight is constantly between a fullstop and a question mark...as soon as u put a fullstop, u are done with it, u live with it, sticking to it...contrary to what u do when u place a question mark, u challenge it, modify it, hate it, ignore it, lamblast it, forget it...thats hows life always have been, atleast for me :) i counter the constant incoming empirical flux with whatever rational concepts i have, alter these concepts whenever it seems reasonable...these seasons go on...learning happens, sometimes! there is no end, is there one?
there is no end.
there is an end.
is there an end.

fullstops and question marks!
thats how it goes!

been to gurgaon the last weekend...ate two rasgullas for 100 bucks at bauji da dhaba at metropolitan mall...my rational concepts were shattered!!
:)