Seasons

Spring Blossoms by Debora Louks

Seasons

I love Spring!  I love watching nature renew and come to life again.  Spring gives me a sense of hope.  Is it any surprise that we celebrate Easter in the Spring?  Resurrection and life eternal; that is what He promised and why Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for all mankind.  That is the most precious gift.  

If you have ever lived a life of chronic pain, disease, or severe acute pain then you can understand why I feel so grateful for the promise of Resurrection.  To have a body that is perfect with no sickness or pain sounds heavenly to me!  I have spent half of my life now in pain from one degree or another.  I can tell when my kidneys are not performing at their best without labs because I feel when it changes.  When you have an illness like this you get to know your body really well.  I want to run around and play with Nathen and Abigail, but there are some days I just can’t.  I remember what it was like when I was a teenager and sometimes I think I can still do all of the things I did as a teenager, but, well, no way that is happening again.

Do you think it is coincidence that as the Earth has its seasons, as we also have seasons?  I don’t believe it is a coincidence.  

     To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. [Ecclesiastes 3:1–2]

 

Full Bloom by Debora Louks

I love to watch the Earth change from season to season.  Every year it is born, matures, fades, and then dies; but then the cycle begins again and nature is re-born.  I know that our bodies go through the same thing and it is reborn at the time of resurrection.  Each season can have joy and sorrow; plenty and want; health and disease.  How could we appreciate the good without the bad; life must have opposites.  

I sometimes wish I had made different choices when life options were presented to me.  I wish I had enjoyed a young, healthy body more than I had, but I can’t change that.  I have learned and grown so much, but I have to wonder about the roads not taken.  Would they have given me the same growth and life experience?  I don’t think I will find that out in this life.  After all, the past is the past all you can do is go forward.  I have been given this lot in life for a reason; I know this.  I know that I am grateful for the countless blessings I have been given.  I have been extremely blessed and continue to see new blessings every day.  The great test is how I endure it all.  

So what do I do, curse or offer praise?  I would love to be without pain, but I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the sweet tender mercies in times of quiet and in pain.  There have been blessings that I can’t begin to enumerate.  Life Is precious and when the time comes I will be happy and grateful for the new beginning in Paradise while I wait for my body to rise in its perfect form.  Life does not end.  It is one eternal round.  How beautiful is that? So, curse or praise?  I will praise Heavenly Father the rest of my earthly days and throughout eternity.  

I will be unimaginably grateful if I receive the gift of a kidney, however  if not, I will endure, go forward, be faithful and know that I will one day be with my loved ones and be held in my Heavenly Father’s arms once again.  

Until Later….Deb