Fall Frantic Frenzy
Today, maybe it is just today, maybe it is a season, maybe just maybe it is a lifestyle.
I am not going to conform to any of that.
Quiet time this morning, social media outlets, news articles are all talking about this stage in life that is hard, the roads are tough and the climb or treadmill seems to be set going 90 miles an hour at a 30% incline. Not cool life, not cool.
But wait, take time, and listen. Take time and yearn. Lately, there has been a bunch of soul searching. Not just for me but for many people I know. New relationships, new lifestyles have come old memories or people in our life have gone. We are left with a hole in our hearts. This void is screaming for fulfillment but is not finding comfort with our typical remedies. (We are looking at the wrong remedies)
This hole has created a longing in our lives. A longing to be loved, a longing to be known and at the core a longing to feel whole. One may ask, how can I be whole with a hole in my heart. Yea, I get the complexity that this provokes and my Sunday School southern backing would just shout Jesus and then leave it at that.
But Jesus deserves and wants more than just our Sunday School answer. He wants to get into the hole of our hearts and make it bigger (yea, I said bigger) because he wants to clean out the crap that we are holding onto because it makes the hole not as big. Once the crap is cleaned out then and only then can he settle in and fill the void completely in our lives. Not just all the crap that is in our house that we probably should purge, yes working on that one, but what junk do we put in our minds consistently?
Do you feel like you are at the stage where something just keeps digging a bigger hole in your life? I am there. Wanting 12 things done at once and being mad when only one is accomplished. Wanting to be fit but not putting in the time, wanting to see friends but not exerting the effort, wanting to go back to school but realizing that it takes time, cost money and cost attention to things you are used to having time money and attention for. I am there with you. I get it.
Fall is a really weird season that we love to celebrate the season but we forget to celebrate the season of fall that we have in our own life. I read that fall is the only time we celebrate the beauty of letting something go. Somehow the pictures of our boots and pumpkin spice lattes make it better but the reality is still there (not a fan of the pumpkin lattes, sorry people, love pumpkin though). Think about it.
The way the leaves change the way they move the air feels different, it brings you more towards a stark reality of what is here today is gone tomorrow. Fall implies trust, trust that though the leaves may fall that new ones will be back soon. This is the part I have struggled with trusting the process, the timing, the conditions of growth and wanting to force myself in a greenhouse to grow quicker. Yet sometimes in a greenhouse you grow but don't grow stronger. The roots are not conditioned for hard cold weather. Your soul is not ready to handle the next issue. This is why we are meant to grow in a community, to shelter others when someone needs a bit more strength and to provide light when someone has been hanging in the shade for too long.
Are we celebrating this season in our lives? What leaves and branches do we need to let go or prune? Are there limbs that are stuck in the trees of our life that are dead and we are just too lazy to pull them out but they are impeding our growth?
Yes, life is crazy. Reality check it always will be if you let it. But together we can weather storms. Together we can work harder to find answers, and together we can fight for a less frantic more rooted tomorrow.
Find your group of together people and make this fall less frantic, and more faithful.
I am not going to conform to any of that.
Quiet time this morning, social media outlets, news articles are all talking about this stage in life that is hard, the roads are tough and the climb or treadmill seems to be set going 90 miles an hour at a 30% incline. Not cool life, not cool.
But wait, take time, and listen. Take time and yearn. Lately, there has been a bunch of soul searching. Not just for me but for many people I know. New relationships, new lifestyles have come old memories or people in our life have gone. We are left with a hole in our hearts. This void is screaming for fulfillment but is not finding comfort with our typical remedies. (We are looking at the wrong remedies)
This hole has created a longing in our lives. A longing to be loved, a longing to be known and at the core a longing to feel whole. One may ask, how can I be whole with a hole in my heart. Yea, I get the complexity that this provokes and my Sunday School southern backing would just shout Jesus and then leave it at that.
But Jesus deserves and wants more than just our Sunday School answer. He wants to get into the hole of our hearts and make it bigger (yea, I said bigger) because he wants to clean out the crap that we are holding onto because it makes the hole not as big. Once the crap is cleaned out then and only then can he settle in and fill the void completely in our lives. Not just all the crap that is in our house that we probably should purge, yes working on that one, but what junk do we put in our minds consistently?
Do you feel like you are at the stage where something just keeps digging a bigger hole in your life? I am there. Wanting 12 things done at once and being mad when only one is accomplished. Wanting to be fit but not putting in the time, wanting to see friends but not exerting the effort, wanting to go back to school but realizing that it takes time, cost money and cost attention to things you are used to having time money and attention for. I am there with you. I get it.
Fall is a really weird season that we love to celebrate the season but we forget to celebrate the season of fall that we have in our own life. I read that fall is the only time we celebrate the beauty of letting something go. Somehow the pictures of our boots and pumpkin spice lattes make it better but the reality is still there (not a fan of the pumpkin lattes, sorry people, love pumpkin though). Think about it.
The way the leaves change the way they move the air feels different, it brings you more towards a stark reality of what is here today is gone tomorrow. Fall implies trust, trust that though the leaves may fall that new ones will be back soon. This is the part I have struggled with trusting the process, the timing, the conditions of growth and wanting to force myself in a greenhouse to grow quicker. Yet sometimes in a greenhouse you grow but don't grow stronger. The roots are not conditioned for hard cold weather. Your soul is not ready to handle the next issue. This is why we are meant to grow in a community, to shelter others when someone needs a bit more strength and to provide light when someone has been hanging in the shade for too long.
Are we celebrating this season in our lives? What leaves and branches do we need to let go or prune? Are there limbs that are stuck in the trees of our life that are dead and we are just too lazy to pull them out but they are impeding our growth?
Yes, life is crazy. Reality check it always will be if you let it. But together we can weather storms. Together we can work harder to find answers, and together we can fight for a less frantic more rooted tomorrow.
Find your group of together people and make this fall less frantic, and more faithful.
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