Day 363 – Be Ready for the Next Chapter
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew;a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Seasons come and seasons go. When one chapter closes another one opens, each one different yet equally beautiful.
Viewing the seasons of our life through the eyes of God allows us to see a Greater Book with many chapters, including lessons, loves and losses, characters, plots, rising actions, climaxes, and falling actions. We get drawn into the pages, not knowing what will happen, wanting to skip over some chapters quickly and linger on others forever. God tugs at every heart string holding tightly until it’s time to let go. Before we know it, one chapter has ended and another begins.
I often wonder how God chose which chapters he’d write in my book. Did he know I’d be able to handle each Word, the laughter, the tears, the life and death, the dancing and grief, the tearing down and building up?!
No matter his reasoning, I decided long ago to trust Him because He’s seen my book to the end. He’s written every word and defined every action. He’s the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, and He lays across every page in between.
He walks with us across the sands of time. His light reflects off the Sunrise and the Sunset.
While looking back on our life, focusing in on the details in pictures, sometimes He carries us and sometimes He holds our hand. In every chapter, in every season, He’s there, Making our Book reflect Him.
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