Seasons of Life
Spring was Grandmother’s favorite season. She loved watching the birds, out on the farm, and it was usually in March when their singing and nesting started. She also treasured taking crisp morning walks along the creekbank, checking for buds on her beloved apricot trees.
But Spring was also a feared time of year, because it meant the beginning of the fifth season–in Southwest Oklahoma—tornado season. A twister can develop so quickly, that the people in its path have little time to seek shelter. This is exactly what happened to Grandmother’s family in 1918, when she was just six years old. They barely made it down into the root cellar before the twister hit. When they came out, the house, the barn and everything else had been completely swallowed up by the storm.
The seasons of life are often likewise—both favored and feared. Sunshine and bird song in the morning can turn to thunder and lightning by afternoon. And there is often little warning.
It’s okay to worry a little, but you must remain positive—even if you don’t want to.
Eunice Estes, my grandmother.
Kind reader, perhaps this is the secret to weathering both the sweet and the stormy times of life: worry a little but stay optimistic. As the old hymn says, “Faith is the victory, that overcomes the world.”
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️ prayers and love.
David Duncan is an ordained Southern Baptist minister turned elementary school administrator. He and his wife have three grown sons, but no grandchildren. They live in the Midwestern United States, with their Schnauzer, Cooper. David blogs at davidsdailydose.org, where he shares positive thoughts from a Christian perspective.
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