Seasons

Do you ever wish that you could just sit in a room with a version of a person you love or used to love? Do you ever want to trace every line on their face, stay up for hours talking, or just to sit in their presence and feel or step into a different version of yourself? Every one at some point in their life wants this. To be able to go back and relive a memory or talk with someone that is no longer here. Life is full of seasons and some people stay for the long haul and others only last a couple or one season. God made life like this for a reason. He knows what people we need at what times. Those who only need to be in our life for a season and others for a lifetime. Because we never know how long we will have with someone, we need to cherish and make the best of every moment we have with the people who are most important to us. For some people we wish we could have acted differently or said things differently. We wish we could hold them one again, have one more conversation or just go back in time to a place where we felt the most joy. But every season of life has a purpose. Even if there are long seasons of dryness and hurt and worry. One day those seasons will turn into ones of joy, peace, and love. Life won’t always be perfect but when you live your life for God it will always be worth it. He would never let you go through something hard or lose someone if He didn’t have a plan or a purpose for it. So rejoice in every season especially in the hard ones. James 1:2-3 says, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”