When the Littles get Big

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 is a great reminder of time. Each season of our lives is just that - a season. A passing moment. And together the seasons make up our lives. Some seasons are harder to manage than others. 

I've lived in a variety of places and the changing of seasons I've experienced each have beautiful parts and ugly parts. For instance - winter in the mountains is beautiful when the white snow coats all around you making it look like a postcard. But not so pretty the very next day when that same snow is dirty and brown and has to be shoveled and leads to mud. Just as spring in the south puts forth amazing flowers and bluebird nests that bring joy for the moment until the heat of summer or showers and humidity make you forget the beauty. 

Just as nature has good and bad so do the seasons of our lives. And as I get older the seasons seem to go much faster. 

When my kids were little time seemed slower. I looked forward to and couldn't imagine the exciting things rhey were learning to do and say and the fun activities that would be available as they got older. Along the way there were good seasons and bad. 

I knew last year when school started back that this season of change would speed up like a runaway locomotive going downhill as soon as we got past Christmas. Today I am on the less than a month side of having two graduates and a less than three months from marrying and moving to a whole new chapter. The days are rocketing by and this weekend it picked up speed. 

Taking senior pictures with my oldest and printing pictures for invitations with my youngest and nailing down more wedding details made the moments so bittersweet. As excited as I am for all that I know they will accomplish the fear of change can overwhelm me. 

So today I'm clinging to this verse and many others. “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 NIV. 

My littles aren't little anymore and as fearful as I may be about tomorrow I can rest in knowing that the God who created the world prepared already the good works He wants us all to do.