The Region of my Season

Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life

I love living in a place with four seasons. Now, I know this is a difficult concept for some of my family and friends living in Texas and California. But for me personally it has become a whole new medium of communication between my FATHER and me. Let me explain… You see one thing the Spirit has always taught me is this; as it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual, and one of the greatest tutors to learn from is Nature and God’s creation.

So that brings me back to the Mountains of Idaho and springtime. Back in February and March the Lord began declaring something to me I’ve been waiting five years to hear. He announced a new season had begun in my life and that I had officially stepped into it. Then came the confirming prophetic words in Church and then more confirmations through His Word. Then came the little but significant signs in my personal life that, well, maybe this really was the Kingdom shift I have been patiently waiting to see unfold in my life. The time of the changing of seasons from winter dormancy, when pruning takes place (ouch), to the late winter early spring rains that leaves everything so messy (yuck) to be done with, so the budding flowers can come.

Then one rainy March morning the kind of morning when the rain is making that amazing sound on your roof and melting away the last of the snow on the ground, when a cup of coffee is tasting especially good, and you feel like you’ve curled up into a womb of creativity. There I was working at my computer when the voice of His lips whispered to me, “Dena, listen, what do you hear?” Why nothing Lord. The sound of the rain had stopped and at some point it had digressed back to snow. Before utter discouragement was able to invade that moment He spoke and said, “As it is in the natural so it is in the spiritual and let this be a sign to you that you are in a new season in your life so don’t be moved by what you see. Your winter has passed and your rains are over and the song of the spirit has come to you and there is a new budding and flowering that has begun. Although winter is clearing its throat a few more times it doesn’t change the fact that you are in a new season. In the coming weeks there will be things that are going to happen that will make it seem contrary to what I have told you but when it does remember this moment.” The following day I found out the day before had been (unbeknownst to me) the first day of spring.

A few days after that I was reading an article by some fashion guru that clearly was not living where I was. She was scolding those who were uneducated concerning the transition of winter to spring fashion etiquette. She boldly declared all boots should have already been put away and were to be worn no more. . . . .As I was putting on my boots and getting ready to walk from my front door to my car through a fresh dump of snow, I thought to myself this fashion editor was not living in THE REGION OF MY SEASON. And then it struck me…

Sometimes we try and spiritually dress others according to the regions of our seasons. As God moves us all into new seasons of our spiritual journeys, it might be the same season but it could look different depending on what region of God’s Kingdom you’re living in. Although some might look like they’re further along than you, don’t be fooled by the last sputtering snows of the former season of your spiritual journey. And don’t try dressing like the other regions for this New Season you’re stepping into but dress yourself for TODAY right where you are. And although you’ll have moments of pause, wondering, have things really changed? Just remember what He said, “To everything there is a season and that He will make everything beautiful in its time.”

Excuse me now, while I go look one more time before I go to sleep, at the fresh snow that fell tonight, and think about all the things my FATHER and I are going to accomplish in this New Season of my life.

There Joyce…I did it!