Change In Seasons

You can smell it in the air. Fall is right and around the corner, and the change in season has begun. Someone recently said to me that we are coming into a new season in life. After two years in limbo our lives seem to be speeding up as fast as its slowing down. What took one church two years to do, we have seen another church make a decision in less then a month (granted Marc has been pastoring for nearly a year). Last week we met with the "powers that be" for dinner and a discussion on what our roles would be as Pastor and you guessed it....First Lady (LOL). This past week Marc met with the leadership of the church for a informal "meet and greet" and this coming Wednesday the church is expected to "vote" .


For nearly a month I have been fellowshipping at my "adopted" church and have become excited over the "changes" that have already been to occur in my life. I am spending more time at home, I have committed to a weekly bible series and I am taking more time out to just enjoy life, and reconnect with my creative side (the wreath above is my own creation, something I have not done in ages). So many of the pressures that I placed on myself have been lifted. Marc and I have talked about what the impact will be on our life as he takes over more responsibilities at WABC and have both agreed on one thing.....family time is imperative. In order for us to minister to others we need to maintain some type of downtime (and from everything I have read from other leaders and pastors this is the one mistake they wish they had not made in the beginning).

I recently looked at a picture of myself from two years ago and was shocked by how much I have physically aged. There are even a few grey hairs in my head that were not there before. I guess I never realized how much of a toil this process had taken on me both physical and spiritually. I'm now seeing that I put to much of my faith in man and very little of it in God. I said the right words and at times believed them but the one thing I forgot was to place all of the life in his hands. Some things I thought I had control of I now realize should have never (and thankfully weren't ) in my control.

For reasons that I don't understand God has seen fit to move Marc and I in a new direction, with new challenges and opportunities we may not have had if we had stayed where we were. My life is just as busy as ever, in fact probably more so. But I am finding that this "new season" offers a chance for a fresh start, a fresh perspective and a fresh vision for the future. What season are you in? What area of your life have you let become so "comfortable" that you have lost sight of the bigger picture (the one that God has chosen) ?