SEASONS

 

One of the songs that has been on repeat on my playlist lately is “Seasons” by Hillsong; a song so deep, tapestry of evergreen words weaved together colourfully, speaking to the most innermost of our being. Permit me to use the first verse of this beautiful song as a backdrop for this piece.

The first verse said:

Like the frost on a rose

Winter comes for us all

Oh how nature acquaints us

With the nature of patience

Like a seed in the snow

I’ve been buried to grow

For your promise is loyal

From seed to sequoia

The chorus

I know

Though the winter is long even richer

The harvest it brings

Though my waiting prolongs even greater

Your promise for me like a seed

I believe that my- season will come

Inferring from the song, we all go through seasons in life; as you are reading this piece, you may be going through spring, autumn, summer or even winter in your life. Understanding each season and the role each has to play in shaping you as a person makes your life both duty and delight.

Spring – Leverage on It

Growing up, the season I don’t like most is the spring or what we may call in this part of the world planting season. It is that time where green grasses begin to beautify our landscapes with their beauty, the smell of rain scent the atmosphere and the freshness and newness of life is everywhere. The spring gives us the opportunity to plant our seeds, and it also marks new beginnings – beginning of relationships, businesses, friendships, family, career, and other endeavors.

Take a cursory look at your life, what aspect of your life is in this season? What are the new beginnings in your life right now? Your ability figure out these clearly will largely influence the effort and carefulness you put into that which is in the season of spring in your life. Don’t ever forget that you are supposed to leverage on spring, the attitude at which you plant your seeds in spring will be reflected in your days of harvest.

Summer – Nurture It

This is the season between plating and harvest. It is the season that gives whatever seed you have planted the chance to grow and flourish – through sun and rain, nutrients and time. Here, the keyword is nurturing. Whatever is planted and it is not being nurtured will wilt and die. Nurturing requires patience, meticulousness and observation; patience because time is needed, meticulousness less you leave vital details unattended to and observation because you need to watch out for changes.

Summer seasons in our lives are very important, this is because we get to tilt our attention and efforts towards that which we have planted in our spring – relationships/friendships, businesses, schools, among other areas of life that requires nurturing. In summer plants blossom, they become productive and begin to yield fruits for harvest. If you are reading this piece, I challenge you to get down to nurturing those aspects of your life that have passed through spring already, invest time, resources and all that is needed to bring about a great harvest – get at it.

Fall/Autumn – Celebrates It

This is the season of harvest where “those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy and he who goes out weeping carrying seed to sow,  will return with songs of joy carrying sheaves with him”. Harvest season is happy season, it comes with deep seated satisfaction that results from the compensation for all the efforts and labour you have invested in spring and summer. Indubitably, regardless of what you sow in spring and how you nurture it/them, harvest will surely come.

One thing you should not fail to do here is celebrating your victory and harvest, and where the harvest fails, take stock and identify where and why you fail. You may be experiencing autumn now in your life, reaping and enjoying a harvest of some things you have sown in the spring and nurtured in summer, stay humble and don’t carried away to the point of consuming your seedlings, less you have nothing to plant again when the spring comes around.

Winter – Grow Through It

Going back to the song I started this piece with,  the crux of the song centres on the reality that winter comes for us all, regardless of the age and stage we are right now in life. Winter is the season of dryness plague by snow and cold, it is the time you withdraw into the cocoon of isolation, where you look for warmness for the soul. Winter test every bit of what you are made up off, it exposes your spirit, soul and body to the harshest of situations that if you survive them, you will become stronger.

Hillsong pointed to us in their song that the first thing winter acquaints us with is PATIENCE and subsequently WAITING; it stretches us beyond our comfort zone and takes us to the point of giving up and letting go. However, the beauty of winter is that it doesn’t only take its toll on us but it bring the best out of us; the longer the winter the richer the harvest, the more the waiting prolongs the greater the end will be. Bottom line is, stay through and remain true in the winter, it may bend you but you won’t break, and even if it breaks you, it will make something new out of you. Be patient in winter, and if God is not done working on your life, don’t get tired of waiting.

Dear Reader

Just like our lives are ordered in ages and stages, so also we go through seasons in the course of our lives and these seasons constitute a circle with each leading to the other. Know that every season avails you the opportunity to learn, love and grow. Every season exposes you to people, situations and experiences to honour God, add value to others and develop character. Be opened minded, always ready to learn, relearn and unlearn and above all, never forget that no season last forever but the lessons they teach us are to make us last.

Whenever you feel like your bad days and darkest nights are prolonging, and nothing seems to really make sense, tell yourself that this is just a season, and it will surely pass.

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