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In time

Embrace the current season of your life.  Gabrielle Blair

{sigh} Can I get a witness?  
Some seasons of life are certainly easier to embrace than others.  But if we can learn to embrace the harder seasons, the darker seasons, the rainier seasons, and the painful seasons as well as the joyful seasons then we become better versions of ourselves.  It is in the harder seasons that we are really refined in character and where we grow as a person.  So if we could embrace it rather than push it away then we make beautiful things in ourselves and with other people.  Embracing the seasons of life, ALL of them, reminds me of, "Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end."  In time everything is made beautiful when given the space and attention it deserves.  Embrace your seasons, ALL of them, and watch God transform them into beauty in your life.  


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