Seasons

Spring Has Sprung!

If you look really close, you can see one of my little girls in each tree.  It's a perfect match for them on our property and they love climbing trees, just as I did as a girl : )

I've been thinking a lot about seasons in our lives as the beautiful spring weather has arrived and all the flowers are blooming.  I've just ended an amazing season of being pregnant and now I'm in the nursing season.  I've always loved the seasons in nature.  I love change, especially expected change.  Isn't that the best kind? : ) I think it's so wonderful that God didn't make the weather and plants always the same.  And in the same way, He has given us changing seasons in our bodies.  God didn't make us to always stay the same.  We are not to always be pregnant or always not pregnant.  We're not always nursing and we're not always fertile.  I think that we need to embrace the seasons in our bodies just as we do the seasons in nature.  Of course, there are some seasons we all like better and some that are harder than others.  But you know, that is really OK because they keep life interesting and we can learn different things and grow in different ways in each season.

I also like to think of our whole life in general as changing seasons.  Here is my take on it:

Birth-25......Spring
25-50..........Summer
50-75...........Autumn
75+.............Winter

Every season has it's beauty and it's positives.  No one is better than the other.

My wonderful daughtes by our tulips we planted in the dead of winter.  Isn't it amazing how those ugly brown bulbs turn into such beautiful flowers?  I know there is a lesson in that!

My darling husband and little girls enjoying the spring weather