Seasons change for a reason
When we were radio missionaries living in the Seychelles, very near to the Equator, a thousand miles from the nearest landfall and in the ‘inter-tropical convergence zone’ that produces two monsoons a year, we missed the seasons back home in the UK.
High humidity all the year round, and days and nights that were always even in length, led after a while to a wistful longing for blustery conditions, and even the harsh cold of winter.
Whilst many might have been dreaming of soaking in the blue seas of the Indian Ocean, in my daydreams I imagined myself walking into a howling gale with an icicle at the end of my nose!
If godliness and contentment are supposed to go together (1 Timothy 6:6) I am not sure which is the easier of the two.
Perhaps like the Apostle Paul we need to learn to be content in every situation, wherever God has placed us (Philippians 4:11).
In the United Kingdom autumn is a time of change. The green leaves of spring and summer become a glorious display of browns, crimsons and golds, as nature prepares the trees for the coming winter.
The nights draw in, perhaps even the heating gets switched on. Our young folk are back at college or school. All is change as we move through this season. Some changes we welcome, some we regret.
Often, for us, the word ‘change’ comes to mean ‘challenge’.
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