I feel this great excitement about what the new year 2010 will hold for me. I really appreciated the message I heard this morning at True North Church... "Seasons of the Soul"...
Ecclesiates 3:1 ... "To everything there is a season. A time for every purpose under heaven." It was suggested this morning that often times our spiritual lives can be described as the physical seasons of the year. Fall - a season of transition ... maybe some things coming to an end. Winter - a season of death - you want to be alone, but there is probably no other time when you have a greater need to experience community. Spring - a season of hope, renewal - you see a light at the end of your experience, hope is produced. Summer - a season of harvest, a season of abundance - may be the easiest season to miss because we feel so self-sufficient... really need to find ways to be thankful for His abundance blessing.
These were great thoughts for me to consider as I prepare for so many things in the new year 2010. I'm thinking we'll probably experience elements of every season as we follow Christ in this new year. I look at Angela and my kids and can recognize the seasons they are experiencing. The acknowledgment of the cycles of the season gave me great hope this morning for 2010 for myself, for Angela, and for my kids. I am looking forward to experiencing this hope that leads to abundance in this new year no matter what seasons we have to go through to discover it.
I am praying for my family and for each of you that we will recognize the love of Christ in each season we experience ... his love through comfort, peace, provision, hope and blessing. I am expecting 2010 to be a great year for my health, my business, my church, and my effort to follow Jesus passionately.
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