This breezy Wisconsin morning I heard, “This wind is bringing a season of change”. It was referencing the earth’s tilt, the arriving shorter hours of daylight and this wind that messages to wildlife to start their preparation for the next season.

At the same time I heard a different meaning to the words… a season of change. In my six decades I have experienced seasons of change and I haven’t always appreciated the forced new season before me. I have also experienced times of seasonal changes that brought great joy, peace and a new purpose – which is my preferred seasonal change IF the choice is mine.

So often we equate a season of change with major life events like the unexpected tragic injury or death of a loved one or an unplanned move that uproots the stability you’ve grown to love. Daily I hear the true stories of many who’ve walked into a new season of pain and loss brought to them by the choices of their loved ones or their own unintentional poor choice.

Born looking at life as always seeing a glass half-full and not half-empty.

Today I am choosing to see the upcoming seasons of change in a positive light for me and for you. We NEED to find the good in every season and for some of us it is easier to see the glass half-full and for some it is more difficult to find the ‘ray of sunshine’ on a cloudy stormy day.

Is it truly possible to find peace, joy and purpose when it seems the world is falling apart? When you hear of wars and rumors of wars? When people call evil good and good evil?

We can! It is possible if you know that this earthly life is not all there is. There is an eternity waiting for me and you! Jesus has prepared a place for me where I can live in eternal glass half-full perfect joy.

Until I breath my final earthly breath this side of heaven I have to trust that my Creator wisely chose the day of my birth and has called me to remain on this earth exactly where He asked me to be and exactly at this place in time to accomplish all that He has prepared for me.

I am no one special. It is the Creator’s Spirit within me that defines me. Forgiven. Redeemed. Saved. A new creation.

Am I ready for the next season of change whatever it is? Nope. Thankfully I am fully confident that my God and Creator Jesus is preparing me and preparing the path before me and HE is in control of the next season I will walk into.

The Lord says, “I know the plan I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”. Jeremiah 29:11