Seasons of Love
As I sit here this morning listening to the song “Seasons of Love,” I am overwhelmed with the reality that God has a plan even when I can’t see it or understand it.
Three weeks ago, we lost our 13-year old son to brain cancer…..a battle he fought with courage and strength for 6 and 1/2 years.
As Christmas quickly approaches and the season is filled with so much earthly joy, I have thought a lot about Mary and how she might have felt as her first Christmas approached. Knowing she had been chosen to carry the Son of God and realizing that all prophecies regarding this most special baby boy were not so pretty, she must have bounced back and forth from joy to sadness from thankfulness to fear.
Just this morning I turned on my son’s Ipod for the first time to listen to some of his favorite songs. Nick was one of those kids who loved music from earlier eras much more than the music of today.
I couldn’t help but smile when one of the first songs I came across was “Seasons of Love” in which the singer says, “How do you measure a year?” The song goes on to list lots of options for measuring a year (sunsets, cups of coffee, inches, etc.). Then the songwriter suggests measuring a year in love…..seasons of love!
Thank you, God, for speaking to me this morning through my son’s Ipod. Thank you for allowing Nick to remind me from Heaven that I must keep pressing on. I must be thankful for all of the seasons of love I had with him, but I must remember that I have four other children who have many seasons of love ahead of them that I must be a part of until the Lord returns.
As you venture into your day today, I pray that you can measure your day and your year in Seasons of Love. And like Mary, treasure up the seasons in your heart for life is but a vapor for all of us.
God does have a plan.
We may not always understand it, but if we trust Him to take us from season to season His love will never fail.
Tammy Nischan