Changing Seasons
When the scaffolding is removed what is left in our lives of change? The one constant in our lives is change. We either allow it its course or resist it. Life's seasons are like natural seasons, change is inevitable.
Change however has with it the attached power to enable the new season, e.g from birth to baby to toddlerhood, to pre-teen, teenage years, young adulthood, adulthood midlife and senior life years and then what? eternity? glass half empty or half full?
Passively letting life happen to us is self-defeating, and we don't exercise our will and choice to engage with the transitional processes of change. Neither do we get to engage with (for those who believe) the one who created us human beings for the next phase of life.
Inviting our creator into our transitional processes of change is wisdom, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Because change is predictable ironically, it is also unpredictable and people who need to be in control of their lives, don't do well with change, it keeps slipping out of their hands.
In conclusion change can be sad or happy, loss or gain, endings or new beginnings however the tapestry of our lives flows, we must allow ourselves permission to grieve our endings and courage to embrace our new beginnings and the resilience to move forward.