Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 MSG
There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth: A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap, A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to destroy and another to construct, A right time to cry and another to laugh, A right time to lament and another to cheer, A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to embrace and another to part, A right time to search and another to count your losses, A right time to hold on and another to let go, A right time to rip out and another to mend, A right time to shut up and another to speak up, A right time to love and another to hate, A right time to wage war and another to make peace.
Sometimes it feels like winter lasts forever. Where I live in Canada it seems we have only 2 seasons, Hot or Freezing, and I must say that freezing feels like it lasts much longer then hot. The Bible clearly says that for every season there is a time. My husband and I have been in what seems like a “winter season” for a long time. Almost 4yrs ago he lost his good full time job, and I was pregnant with our 2nd child. We went from being so excited to be pregnant, to an extreme low of his job loss.
As believers of Jesus, we knew we would get thru this season cause our source of faith wasn’t found in our jobs or bank account, but in Him. As I went off to work and my husband became a stay at home Dad overnight, things became stressful. Just because we have God doesn’t mean we don’t have ups and downs and doubts. It would of been easier in that season to do things our way but we kept to Gods plan – serve and give. God was faithful in that season. Shortly after He lost his job he got a new one. A totally different field and what seemed to be a steady job. Again we found ourselves trusting God as it was an “on call only” job.
Fast forward 4 years, we have learned SO much in this very long winter season. You really can live with less then you think you can. We downsized in houses, moved back down to the lower city, cut the cable off and I stayed home to raise our kids. We live off of 1/2 of what we made when both of us worked full time and felt broke all the time. We have more quality time with friends, each other and our kids. We are not sucked in to TV shows running our lives. We have time to read, play board games and talk.
In this season we have seen the hand of God on our family the whole time. We have seen trips given to us, gift cards come in at just the right time, Family photos done for free, a dishwasher, cash given and an abundant amount of prayers. See, God put us in this season to build us back up. He knew we where on a path of pure destruction and saved us from it. Do I wish that this season never happened, not at all. I feel that my husband and I communicate better, our kids got the best parts of us and we learned a lot. 2015 we feel is a year of blessings. No roadblocks- just forward motion! We wait with anticipation as to what God will do this year in our finances and now know less really is more.
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