He has made everything beautiful in its time.
What season are you in today? What gifts or talents are you using/needing most at this season of your life? What’s the best/hardest part of this season?
What season are you in today? What gifts or talents are you using/needing most at this season of your life? What’s the best/hardest part of this season?
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Wonderful, wonderful post. I feel the same way about our pear trees that you do about your dogwoods. They are just so lovely in every season. Even in the winter, when they are bare, they have a stark loveliness.
I am in my autumn season. I don’t know if I’m technically there. “They” say I’m more of a late summer. Since I don’t want to be in the dog days, I choose early autumn instead.
I’m checking the field for harvest. I’m observing and evaluating and seeing if it’s time for some fruit to come off the vine and be used in a manner somewhat different than it has been used in the past.
As I approached my autumn, my call has been less to children and more to adults, particularly other women.
I spent the first twenty years or so of my adulthood working with kids and teaching them. I still love them, but my heart doesn’t long to teach them the way it used to.
Still, my greatest passion is teaching. I am just teaching a different group in a different way.
Oh good grief. I just wrote a blog post. Funny… I can’t seem to put two words together on my own blog these days but keep writing tomes on everyone else’s. UGH.
Love it, Susan. I’m going to give it some thought and get back to you with my answer. Honestly, I don’t know up from down these days, and I’m sure you know why from visiting the diary.
LOVE that you stirred Debbie to write. 😉
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
LOL Debbie, I’m so glad you were able to find your words tonight! God’s blessings as you go in a new direction.
I’m in a very odd season of life, Susan. I have had four close friends die in a little over a year, and I’m very close with the children of three of them. One of my friends has kids my age who live away. Anyhow, I find myself being a mother at this stage of my life. I don’t have children, but I’ve always loved my friends’ children like family, sort of as an Auntie Mame.
But now, I’m finding that I am stepping in and trying to protect and love them as a mother would. I had one of them say the sweetest thing to me the other day, stating that we were like another set of parents to all of our friends’ kids. It was so very touchy, but it’s also a little scary. Oh, how I miss my friends! I need them for advice! The shoe is now on the other foot! I was so quick to give advice and listen when their parents asked as the kids were growing up… I have a thing for teenagers and can handle them… or could! But now, that the kids are all grown up, I hope I have the right advice to give them now that their mothers are gone. Thank goodness I have help from the Lord! But I guess love does cover a multitude of mistakes. I just don’t want to let them down!
XO,
Sheila
P.S. I told a friend about Restoration and how to get to your blog. So if you get a visitor from Florida, it’s likely my buddy!
It was so very “touching” not touchy! LOL! I need new glasses!!!
Susan, I couldn’t agree more… I love to see trees in different stages at the appropriate times. We still have plenty of trees in our area with green leaves on them yet I’m ready to see all of their leaves change! I love how you connected this to God and His creation of us.
Hi Susan how have you been ? It’s always wonderful to read your articles. I enjoyed reading this one particularly because I love trees and l have also felt that each season in a trees life tells us about our circle of life too. What inspires me most is how a tree reinvents itself every time and reminds me that with my life too, I need to do that , as I grow older , I too need to reinvent myself. A tree gives away everything it has to others without getting anything in return , that is what we all need to do , live selflessly. Take care.