...New beginnings!
...Rebirth!
...Reawakening!
...New life!
...Restoration!
I have always been a fan of Spring, but for some reason I feel something more. I sense that this is going to be a season of resurrection!
...old dreams!
...buried hopes!
...reconciliation!
...second chances!
I believe that many beautiful, hidden things will be unearthed!
Think about it, Winter is a quiet time! Almost a time when everything goes to sleep and feels dead. Winter is like an aching silence, but in that time it was ticking like the mechanisms and gadgets in a clock...
...moving!
...turning!
...almost as if it were breathing, even if it couldn't be heard or seen with the naked eye.
In my perception and experience, Winter usually meant...
....loneliness!
...aloneness!
...barrenness!
...silence!
...hibernation!
...or at least it felt like Winter inferred a time of solace and serenity because of the stillness, a time to stop, think, and really become introspective and evaluate your life.
Winter comes at the end of the year, so it always felt like (to me) the death or ending of something. But, the great Solomon said,
"It is better to be patient rather than arrogant. The end of something is better than its beginning."
I totally agree with those wise words, but why is that so? Those very words can mean so many different things to different people. I am the Queen of scenarios, so here are a few perspectives I took from Solomon's words.
-The end of something is better than its beginning, because you have failed, made mistakes, and learned much more in the process.
-The end of something is better than its beginning, because the beginning may have been hard to tackle and start, painful, difficult, or not at all what you expected.
-The end of something is better than its beginning, because you were challenged to dream, hope, and believe for greater things to come and not just limit yourself to the one amazing event or experience you've encountered.
-The end of something is better than its beginning, because you are thrown into the uncertain, the unknown, and you have to hope because everything is new again, and you can't use what you know as something to lean on anymore; you have to experience new things (reinvent, recreate, reignite, etc...)
-The end of something is better than the beginning, because your latter will be greater than the former.
-The end of something is better than its beginning... (simplistic, deep, and almost as silencing as Winter)
Now is a season of resurrection!
We have to be willing to let the deep things in us be unearthed. They yearn like birthing pains in our souls. If you find that you have been dealing with frustration, irritation, jealousy, or discontentment, be introspective!
Take a moment to stop and really be honest with yourself. Listen so your soul will live! Let your soul breathe and develop these deep things, and unearth what's really true, because the truth is liberating!
I definitely see the natural importance of Winter, (and that is a big deal that I see its value, because I resist Wintertime as if I have control over it, but I don't, but it's hilarious that I try) but even deeper than that, many of us have breezed through Winter, because it was so painful, boring, traumatic, embarrassing, etc., but didn't really take that time to heal and to let the seeds that were forming in our souls develop. It isn't too late and it hasn't been aborted.
We must be cultivated!
Let the deep things in your soul breathe and then you will see that the anxiety, jealousy, fear, frustration, etc. will break away, because those things are dead. You have to let the dead things fall off and fall away, so that you will have open eyes for the new things, the very things Spring brings!
It is a season of resurrection and it is for anyone who is willing to hear so that their soul will live!
No one is exempt...
No one is excluded...
No one is "not good enough"...
No one is "good enough",(VIP) more important than the next...
It is a paradox and those who let the old things pass away, will be able to see the new things come.
All things are made new!
Do not remember the former things, behold a new thing has come! Streams in the wilderness and rivers in the desert...
Mercies are new!
It is a season of resurrection!