by Pastor Audrey
Fall is coming. Thanks be to God.
I know a lot of people LOVE summer. I’m not one of them. As a very fair-skinned person, the summer sun just hurts me. I get stuck in endless cycles of burning and peeling.
But I know it’s just a season and that it will pass. Fall will come again. Winter and spring, too. Then summer once again.
For reasons of temperament or physical natures, we all have different favorite seasons. Some people love the heat, some love the cold. Some love the sunshine, some love cloudy days.
Does it help to remember that the only constant in life is change? I certainly don’t want to push anything as trite and overwrought as “this, too, shall pass.” But knowing that there are regular seasons and rhythms in life can help us when we don’t like the current season – for whatever reason. Maybe the season is not constant, but we can still strive to be constant in the sense of being faithful and showing up, even when we don’t like it.
Fall is coming. There will be relief from the heat. And it will return again in its season. And through all of the seasons, through all of life’s changes, we can trust that God is constantly with us.