There's a Season for that
Someone shed light on a topic that seems so cliche for me this week. I always hear the words, “People are in your life for a reason or a season,” but I guess I never heeded them much. As much as I hear that saying, this time was different. Hearing and listening are not the same and this time instead of just hearing the saying, I really listened. It made so much sense this time around for some reason. Further thought on the subject led me realizing that while this saying is true for people, it is also very true for EVERYTHING in our lives . Just like people come and go, so does jobs, homes, cars, etc. What’s more important is we don’t get a say so for when the seasons end. This has been a year of learning for me. I’ve gained and loss so much this year alone. Some that were really near to my heart, but just as the saying goes, there is a season for everything.
There has been so much change for me this year. Recently friends or people I thought were my friends have come and gone. You’d think I’d learned my lesson after losing both my best friends of 20+ years a few years ago. (Another story for another day). Nonetheless, it’s safe to say that I haven’t learned my lesson. Because again I’ve opened my heart to seasonal people thinking I had a lifetime ahead of us. It was hard for me to come to grasp with losing my beloved friends so I promised myself I wouldn’t go down that road again. But life. This time around I don’t consider it a stick up though. Life is full of lessons and when God is teaching, HE TEACHES. He teaches in the most seemingly absurd ways. Like losing a friend over humbling yourself to ask for help and being slapped in the face. Not literally, but that’s what it felt like when I opened my mouth to ask “my sister” for help and she killed me with words. Her reply was not only unexpected, but hurt me to my core. In that moment I hadn’t realized that again I had given my heart to a “seasonal” person. The people you feel would never, they do it and your left trying to figure out why or how. What I’ve learned to do is to just let it go. If God set it up that way then that means that season has passed away. Just like Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer people come and then they go. One more important thing, don’t let the crudeness of one person keep you from asking for help when you need it.
Like I said, people come and they go and so does stuff. This week I was faced with a hard truth. My car was been repossessed and I can do absolutely nothing about it. If this would have happened a year ago, I’d be losing my mind right now. But, thank God I’m not losing it, I’m not stressed or even bothered. I posted on IG last week of how unbothered I am and that was before the repossession. But, still unbothered indeed. If you follow me on IG then you know every single day in my stories I post “ Trust in the Lord.” I don’t post that for aesthetic neither do I post it for my health. It is really a daily reminder for others and for myself. Proverbs 3:5 tells us to Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. I’ve learned that leaning to my own understanding has NEVER worked in my favor, but when I give all my trust to the Lord He works it out in every season. Every single time He comes through. So as the record shows I’m trusting in the Lord with this one too. As I stated before everything has a season and maybe my season with that car is over. Will life be a little tough without two cars? Maybe. But, with God on the throne of my heart I have nothing to worry about. I let it go because just how we adjust to the seasons, we have to do the same with our “seasons” of life. So Dear car, I guess our season has come to an end. Inserts shrug emoji.
This Season of my life has taught me that God got me. Friendships loss, Income loss, Car loss and so much more that if I keep going this post will never end. I know that God promised to supply all of my needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. So I’m good with or without. Along with that I’ve learned that in everything, THERE’S A SEASON FOR THAT!
