These days, I’m learning so much about energy, stamina, seasons, flows, cycles, and how they relate to creativity, production, and output. As I cycle through what is required from me in order to fulfill my purpose and at the same time manage the realities of life – I have come to realize that our soul, spirit, and body need continuous preparation and rest to manage the changes in the seasons of life.
Isn’t it amazing how we think we have so much time in a particular season of life that we get too comfortable and not do what we need to do in that season? I was at home for little over a year as I had just gotten married and relocated to a different continent and this was a brand new season in my life. During the time I was home – I was so focused to get a job and continue with the corporate lifestyle I was used but all that didn’t work and I was down in my spirit because I wasn’t sensitive enough to embrace the season I entered. We shouldn’t be in hurry to get out of the season we are experiencing without fully going through the process that we are supposed to learn in that particular season. If you are a student enjoy being one, if you are single do the needed inner work, if don’t have a family yet enjoy the flexibility that comes with it – Just do life without the pressure of the next. With that in mind I want to share with you the lessons I have learned in the interesting season that ended:
No season is permanent
Maybe you are going through some rough patches or everything is working together as desired just know this reality of life – nothing is permanent! Some of us love summer but it can’t be summer all year long right? Embrace every season you are in – it will change!
There’s always a transition
Just like spring gives way to summer or autumn to winter so is it, in reality, there’s always a transition between where you are now and where you will be incapable of moments during this time it is important that you orientate yourself – take time to tie any loose ends, prepare your mind and get into a rhythm. I am currently working but just before I got the opportunity, I was doing a language course that was starting early morning and this help me a lot in getting rhythm now that I am working. Also, another discipline I had to learn two weeks before starting work was going to bed early and this helped me transition in this new season I am in currently.
Listen to the inner child
We can really thrive or wait well when we listen to our soul because some seasons are really tough and one of the lessons I learned is that when I feel overwhelmed and it fills like my world is spinning or I feel directionless is to just sit back and really listen to what my soul is desiring in the midst of it all. Everyone has an opinion on what we should do but the IMPORTANT question is what do you really want? Our souls are wounded because we put in all efforts to listen to our bodies or spirit but not our soul – we should pray that our souls are restored so that we can be whole.
Be sensitive
Consciousness is a central element in understanding where we are but we can only be conscious when we are sensitive to our spirit and the promptings from our surroundings. One of the things I have learned is to continually be sensitive to what the holy spirit is drawing my attention to by being still which enables me to hear the gentle whispers of the spirit and secondly I observe the changes that my surrounding is trying to communicate to me – just like the changing of the leaves in autumn signals the coming of the winter season so does many things in our life. Our bodies, emotions, energy, and stamina can tell us that there’s a change when we are sensitive enough – a few weeks ago I went to see the doctor because I couldn’t understand why my body was going through extreme fatigue and also why my concentration span so short was – just for the doctor to tell me usually in the last days of winter the weather change has an extreme toll on the body and the mind.
Be effective
One of my regrets in the season of being home was not completing what I had to do in that season because now I don’t have the time, grace, energy, flow of ideas, and inspiration and now I must complete the task that I had to do on the expense of the current season. We might get the time to do what we couldn’t but we might not have all other needed aspects like energy and inspiration. Don’t waste your energy and inspiration because they are equally important as your time.
I love the word in Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer, and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Seasons are part and parcel of life, God created them and that is how everything under the sun operates.
Happy new season!