Today’s reading is Ecclesiastes 2-6.
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| Flowers in Winter. |
In Ecclesiastes 3, we are reminded that there is a time and a season for everything. The important thing to see here is to remember that there is a season in our lives. Too often people want to stay in the season they are in and this brings difficulty.
People want to stay teenagers, or stay young adults, or behind the wheel of a car not wanting to accept the truth that this time in their life has passed. Often this results in missing out on new joys of this new season of life or in accidents which hurt themselves and others.
I can’t help wondering if our desire for fresh fruits and vegetables out of season is a good thing, but that is a discussion for another day and another forum.
We need to be willing to admit that the seasons in our lives change and to adjust to them. Buying baby toys for your twelve-year-old doesn’t keep them a baby it just creates issues. Even so failing to admit things have changed creates denial or a yearning for the past. This causes a person to miss the blessing of the present or saps the strength needed to face current trials.
The first step to going anywhere is to admit where you are. So look around, what season of life are you in and go from there. This is true if you’re a 25-year-old person or a hundred-year-old organization. Denying where you are will only lead to trouble. Setting out flowers in winter doesn’t change the season, it only kills the flowers.
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