Every Season

every evening sky, an invitation to trace the pattern stars

and early in July, a celebration for freedom that is ours

and I notice you in children’s games

and those who watched them from the shade

every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder

You are summer

and even when the trees, have just surrendered to the harvest time

forfeiting their leaves in mid September

and sending us inside, still I notice you when change begins

and I embrace for colder winds

I will offer thanks, for what has been and what’s to come

You are autumn

and everything in time, and under heaven finally falls asleep

wrapped in blankets white, all creation shivers underneath

and still I notice you, when branches crack and in my breath on frosted grass

even now in death, you open doors for life to enter

You are winter

and everything that’s new, has bravely surfaced

teaching us to breathe

to what was frozen through, is newly purposed

turning all things green, so it is with you

and how you make me new, with every seasons change

and so it will be, as You are all creating me

summer, autumn, winter, spring

- Nicole Nordeman -

                          

Here's a song I was listening to this morning and made me think of the times when the surrounding goes dark, gray and ugly. But come to think of it, when the sun shines on the morning frost, there's an awesome beauty in it. So it with us, when all we see around us is gray and ugly, God shows beauty in it as long as we persevere. God allows it so that we become desperate of His Presence... that all we need is Him who satisfies our soul. We also get to the point of asking His eyes to be ours, His heart to beat like ours, and His thoughts to be ours.