I've done a little reading about the seasons of life. I've heard people comment about being in a particular season but I've never really looked into what those seasons might be.
I've thought about these possible seasons:
- childhood and development
- young adulthood, the quest for career, the quest for a mate
- young family, friends getting married, friends having children
- older family, older generation (parents, aunts, uncles) dying, empty nest, grandchildren, declining health
- retirement, siblings dying, spouses dying
But this seems too chronological for me.
Perhaps as we go through the different phases of physical maturity and natural decline we experience different things that require a response from us and these times become the seasons.
Now I don't know anything about Adam Sicinski or IQMatrix, but here's an excerpt of what he says:
- Summer: A season for rewards, celebration and fulfillment.
- Autumn: A season for survival, mistakes and problems.
- Winter: A season for reflection, hibernation and planning.
- Spring: A season for learning, opportunity and dynamic thinking.
Interesting.
So how long does one season last?
What determines how we move from one to the next?
Do they go in order like our natural seasons do?
Or can they skip around?
Do some people live in a "climate" that only produces one or two seasons?
Natural seasons progress pretty rhythmically whether we want them to or not. Do our personal seasons change on their own or do we have any control over them!
Are there spiritual seasons?
If so, do they stand alone or are they intertwined with life's seasons?
According to King Solomon there is a season for:
- giving birth and dying
- planting and uprooting
- killing and healing
- tearing down and building up
- weeping and laughing
- mourning and dancing
- throwing stones and gathering stones
- embracing and refraining from embracing
- searching and counting as lost
- keeping and throwing away
- tearing and sewing
- being silent and speaking
- loving and hating
- war and peace (from Ecclesiastes 3:2-8)
Think about it.
Tomorrow we are going to look at some scripture regarding spiritual seasons. I think that will answer some of today's questions.
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