While traveling in the USA last year I had the opportunity to see some amazing sights that are often present during the fall time of the year. Leaves changing colors, the mixture between the greens, yellows, and coppers, the bare trees, and those that are still hanging onto their leaves.
While observing these magnificent sights something sparkled within my heart. Here I was standing before a supernatural refreshing of Gods masterful piece of creation. A change of season was coming that would lead to some months of feeling bare and totally vulnerable, yet these months were very necessary so that those with fullness and glory could follow.
How wonderful I thought that God takes his time to do this to nature and his creation in much the same way that he does it with us. You see today you might be like I was a couple of years ago handicapped by an unforeseen injury to your leg or perhaps find yourself in a place that has led you to feel bare and vulnerable like the trees. Or maybe you are in a place of freedom and full bloom and experiencing some amazing breakthroughs in your journey.
No matter where you are enjoy the moment as you are being refreshed and renewed like his tender mercies every morning. Each season refreshes us in a way that the others can’t. As we journey through life we will inevitably come into them. New seasons will lead us to new discoveries about us and our Dad. Some of them will even make us feel like we are starting all over again, when in reality all that we are experiencing is a breakthrough into a place that might be completely new to us, yet it has been there all along waiting for us to discover it.
Choosing to see these times as the Artist stroking a new color or shade into the masterpiece of our lives will mean us being able to enter into the masterpiece itself so that we can understand and be a willing part of the process. Choosing to instead see it as God punishing us, hurting us, or forgetting us will only lead us to the place where we will believe the illusion that our lives are nothing more than a purposeless accident.
Have a great weekend
-pablo-
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