I’ve never understood the British fascination with complaining about the weather. It rains a lot. Sometimes the sun doesn’t work. Other times, like right now, I have to ask if this country has ever heard of air conditioning.
The idea of seasons has become more real living in a country where the weather changes. It’s not like the Caribbean with just a dry and wet season.
Life is all about seasons.
When we try to live in summer as if it were winter, we’ll get heat stroke. If we live in winter as if it were summer, we’ll freeze.
In life, trying to live outside the season you’re in brings pain and discomfort. I often see young parents struggle with this. Wanting to party all night or live as if nothing has changed when there’s a little human expecting you to nurture them into adulthood.
It’s a woman whose life is changing because of divorce, death, debt, menopause, children leaving home, or moving her business from her bedroom to downtown.
You can’t medicate your way out of change, even if there is a pill for that.
You can’t avoid the screaming baby or the screaming signals telling you life has changed.
To enjoy the life you’re created to have, you must be willing to look that new season in the face and say, “Hey, I’m ready for you. Bring it on.”
The challenge isn’t that life changes. The challenge is that we often try to carry an old identity into a new season.
The skills, habits and mindset that helped you survive one chapter may not help you flourish in the next. Every season asks a different question.
Sometimes God is asking you to rest.
Sometimes He is asking you to learn.
Sometimes He is asking you to plant.
Sometimes He is asking you to build.
Sometimes He is asking you to let go of what has served its purpose so you can make room for what’s next.
We spend so much energy praying for change, then resisting it because it doesn’t look the way we imagined.
The most fruitful people I’ve met aren’t the ones who avoid change. They’re the ones who recognise the season they’re in and respond with wisdom.
They stop comparing today’s chapter with yesterday’s. They stop trying to force summer fruit in winter soil. Instead, they ask a better question.
“What does this season require of me?”
When you stop fighting the season, you begin to grow through it.
Growth has always been God’s design. From the beginning, humanity was blessed before it was given an assignment. We were created to be fruitful, multiply and steward what we’ve been given. Every season prepares you for the next expression of that calling.
So don’t waste this season wishing you were somewhere else. Embrace it. Learn from it. Let it shape you into the person the next season will require.
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