The Soul, Like Nature, Has Seasons Too

 

"As we pursue Jesus' definition for His disciples, we learn it was essential for them
to take up their crosses daily and follow Him. True discipleship is a life of sacrifice.
It is a daily sacrifice of our own desires to serve Him. Still, to live for Him this
way is the greatest, most fulfilling life we can live, regardless of how difficult.
And rest assured, this will be the most difficult life we can live. It is a life
contrary to all the ways of this world and all the people of this world,
as well as of most professing Christians. It is not meant to be easy.
It is not easy,but it is worth it."
Pastor Rick Joyner
MorningStar Ministries

My Time

Laura Lee Zanghetti

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When you feel cast down and despondently sad

And you long to be happy, and carefree and glad.

Do you ask yourself, as I often do,

Why must there be days that are cheerless and blue?

Why is the song silenced in the heart that was gay?

And then I ask God what makes life this way,

And His explanation makes everything clear-

The soul has its seasons the same as the year.

Man, too, must pass through life's autumn of death

And have his heart frozen by winter's cold breath,

But spring always comes with new life and birth,

Followed by summer to warm the soft earth...

And oh, what a comfort to know there are reasons

That souls, like nature, must too have their seasons-

Bounteous seasons and barren ones, too,

Times for rejoicing and times to be blue...

For with nothing but sameness how dull life would be,

For only life's challenge can set the soul free...

And it takes a mixture of both bitter and sweet

To season our lives and make them complete.

"The Soul, Like Nature, Has Seasons, Too"
From the book, "A Collection Of Joy"
Helen Steiner Rice
(1900-1981)
American Christian poetess and writer
She is known as the "Poet Laureate of Inspirational Verse"