Seasons

I heard someone say once ‘don’t waste the season you are in’. It got me thinking what season am I even in? When you look at your life we go through many seasons. Childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, marriage, parenting, empty nesting, and retirement. For me, I am currently in the season of parenting.

What a season to be in during this day and age. During this stage I have never leaned on my faith as much as now. So many times during parenting I see the things we go through to help us grow. During this current season I need to learn how be ‘in’ the season. So many times I keep looking at the calendar to things that are to come. Always planning for the future. Never stopping to look at the here and now.

I look at where I am in life, at my age, and at my marriage. I think how grateful I am to be in this season. God has put me perfectly in this season of my life. He knew how old I would be raising two adopted teenagers. He also knew how many years my husband and I would be married by this time. What does that all matter anyway?

When I look at my marriage, we have almost been married 20 years. We had 15 years of marriage before we stepped into the parenting world. With having all those years under our belt, it has made us a very strong couple. We have learned many lessons about how without really good communication we would not be where we are. When we talk to our children about hardcore topics they try to pit us against one another. We just look at each other and smile. We look at each other knowing, nice try kiddo.

Where I am at in life is pretty great and very accommodating for raising adopted children. I have the best job, with loads of understanding that family needs to come before work. If a situation ever comes up I can just walk right out the door with no problem. So thankful for my job, boss, and co-workers.

Now the age I am at can be tricky, over 40 in a woman. Eye roll… Gotta love this season! I have to put myself in check a lot with how I respond to all around me. Hormones running wild over here. LOL! I try really hard to group text my household members about how today I am a bit on the harsher side. Please don’t come at me with lots of crazy things for me to decide. I try to keep as much open communication with everyone as much as possible. Some days they can just tell it has been a hard day physically. Gotta say I am so blessed that we adopted teens and not little children. It would definitely be harder for me to get through the day with young ones and being an over 40 year old woman.

Be in the season you’re in… the good, the bad, and the ugly. Slow things down and look around to what is going on now. If we don’t, we may miss a really good learning moment in our life. God has His perfect timing, not the timing we think it should be. Trust in Him, He’s got it all sorted.