What if you knew this was only a season?
The waiting, the wandering, the wondering, the questioning.
What if you knew where you were today was only temporary? What if you knew it was a launch pad for something was to come? Something that is far greater than you ever can imagine.
Would that change anything? Would that change you?
What would it be like if you knew that as soon as you surrendered that dream, that it would be the very beginning of something growing inside of you? What if you knew as soon as you took your hand off the driver’s wheel your dream wouldn’t come true instantly, but it would begin a work in you that was far better than anything you are currently dreaming about?
Where would you guide your feet? Where would you guide your thoughts? What would change if you knew that this wouldn’t last forever? That on the other side of this season would be another season. You might not get what you have been waiting for, but this place, where you are, won’t last forever. What if you knew, really knew, and believed that?
I remember once I stopped trying to control a situation, I felt such joy for the moments I was given even though I had not yet seen the fruit of my surrender. And you know what happened? I changed. Not the season, at least not immediately, I changed first. I changed and then eventually a few years later, so did my situation. Yes, years. Not all seasons are short. And not all seasons get a happily ever after. But all seasons end.
I remember once I stopped worrying about a different situation, I felt such peace for the moments I was given at the present. The peace came even though I had not yet seen the fruit of choosing not to worry. Once again, I found myself changing not the world around me. The unknowns were still scary and intimidating and I still asked a billion questions, but I was proved a thousand times over that I could do things scared and it would still be okay. I found that the scariness was only a season. The darkness I found myself in didn’t last forever.
So what about you?
What would change if you knew what you are facing today won’t last forever?
What stirs up in you when you remember that you’re only in a season?
It makes me brave.
It makes me hope.
It makes me keep the light on in the dark because I know sooner than I think; I am going to need it to find my way to the next season on my way back home.
