I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for 26 years. My youngest son is now learning to drive, and there will be graduation and college. This season of my life is coming to a close but I won’t speak of turning leaves and falling petals. I won’t imagine winds that carry seeds to other lands. I won’t anticipate the cold.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote in her exquisite book Gift from the Sea, “One tries to cure the signs of growth, to exorcise them, as if they were devils, when really they might be angels of annunciation…a new stage in living when, having shed many of the physical struggles, the worldly ambitions, the material encumbrances of active life, one might be free for growth of mind, heart and talent; free at last for spiritual growth…”
Spiritual growth. Yes, every stage, every season, every day is spiritual growth with God at my side.
God is not stagnant, neither is His creation and neither are His people. He offers gifts and blessings in every season, like chapters of a magnificent book. I need only to savor and smile, turn the page, savor and smile some more.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven Ecclesiastes 3:1
Meeting God at the Park 
This one really speaks to me as I continue to turn the page to the “next chapter” in my life. It’s always such a temptation to try to “cure the signs of growth” instead of constantly recognizing and embracing the growth. “God is not stagnant and neither are His people…” Well put!
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Thanks so much, Larry!
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