There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Spring is here. March 20th. Spring always marks a time of refreshing. Death is giving way to life, and the world once again feels the sunshine on their face and begins to see beauty all around. You open your windows and let the clean fresh breeze wash away the staleness which is brought by winter.
One day later, March 21st, I am 30. Yes, I know a woman is never supposed to tell her age, but I am excited about this milestone. My 20’s have brought so much to me. Freedom of parental authority to being the parental authority, heartache and breakups to finding what real love is and marriage. Loss of loved ones to bringing life to the 2 people I love the most in this world. Making royally huge life-altering mistakes, to seeing how much grace God really has for my life as He takes those choices and makes them just a part of His story. Financial struggles in building a new business to seeing breakthrough and blessing. From being a young woman who really wasn’t sure of who she was as a person, mother and wife, to finding my footing and knowing who I am in Christ.
I look forward with excitement to the new things God holds for me and more confident that He will carry me through the things I don’t even know is coming.
Maybe you have lost things, good things, and don’t understand why. Loved ones, homes, jobs, friends, innocence. We may never understand the reasons we lost them, but until we let go of what we hold in our grasp we can not embrace the new thing He wants to place there. I am confident of this… if God allowed you to lose it He has already made a way for something new.
It is a time for a new season in your life, a new spring, a new decade, whether you wanted it or not. It is time to let go of the past. The good as well as the bad things of the past are still the past. The past is dead, and the new season offers new life and a new hope.
Beautiful! Oh, and I love coffee too…way to much!
Wow, YOU made me excited to turn the 3-0.
God Bless.
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