10 DAYS OF GRATITUDE – Day 2

Life is all about seasons.

Some really feel extra just like the gloomy days of winter, whereas others really feel just like the perfection of a sun-kissed summer season day.

I might say since we moved again to Michigan in 2017, it has at instances, felt like some lengthy years of winter. If it isn’t my coronary heart, it’s most cancers. This season of life has felt unending. BUT. What am I grateful on this present life stage?

I really feel spring coming! Typically I’m nervous and nearly scared at instances {that a} new season is coming as a result of I’m afraid the previous seasons isn’t going to depart fairly but. However what I LOVE about this present stage is that I really feel flowers are beginning to bloom once more in our life. I see the chances of latest beginnings. New concepts. New methods of residing. New meals selections. New body of considering. Renewed religion.

I don’t want to relive the previous phases, nevertheless it does make me extra grateful for what has been realized so we are able to embrace the present. Though we’re heading into the winter season naturally, I need to embrace our “spring” season and stay it with eyes broad open.

Now I do know, there are some who’re in these “winter months”. How do you discover one thing to take pleasure in? However that is the place the rubber meets the highway. Can pleasure be present in your present stage of life? Even within the “winter” months? Completely. Little doubt about it. In truth, the Bible talks regularly about easy methods to discover pleasure amidst our trials (James 1, Philippians 4). There may be ALWAYS one thing to be glad about. Possibly it’s your clear water. A heat home. Household. Potential to learn. A comfortable pillow. There may be ALWAYS one thing.

How about you? What are you grateful for about your present stage of life?