Seems that EVERYONE keeps telling me summer is over. I know we just finished up Labor Day weekend, but is it really over? Summer seemed way too short this year. As I take inventory, mine was full of many new adventures and even more change. The only shortage I can really assess is time at home, doing the summer things I enjoy—like gardening, having quiet time on the deck, barbecuing, taking evening walks and going to Rockies’ games. There is still time to try to fit a few of these moments in before the snow starts flying, but you never know how long!
Wrestling with the end of summer and the arrival of autumn, I am feeling unsettled. Finding a bit of space in my life now, I started reading a new book: Playdates with God by Laura J. Boggess. “But the coming of spring always awakens in me this unsettled desire. In fact, it happens with each change of season—as the earth dons her new cloak, I find myself with this stirring…this craving for the new” (p. 30). Autumn usually brings new crayons and backpacks, new teachers and friends, but not this year. This is a new season, a new autumn. I feel the unsettledness in this new unknown. Laura’s words are my words. I have always felt this reset of sorts, when we enter a new season. The play on words is spinning in my head…it may be a new fall, but also a new season in my adult life…the kids are off on their next adult adventures. The question may be—what is mine?
Maybe this new unsettled feeling is rooted in the unknown of my new routine. I am a girl who loves routine! I always long for the break of summer and a change to mix it up, but come July, I am strategizing, planning, and ready to implement routine again. This new season has yet to present the basic structure which will set the framework of routine. This is when I must spend time with the Director of my path, the Keeper of my days and the One who can show me what is next. He holds the answers I am looking for!
I don’t know if you are wrestling with the changing of seasons, in the same way I do, but they are indeed ever-changing! Be it the weather or the next adventure, we all experience change. Sometimes we flow right along with it and other times we struggle against it. The only thing I am sure of is He who holds me in the midst of all the seasons of my life.
“even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.”
Psalm 139:10
Even there…from the heavens to the depths to the far side of the sea…He will be there, for me and for you!
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