So it is getting to the time of year here in my part of the country where all the leaves are falling dead to the ground, the skies are overcast nearly every day and that blasted wind is whistling in from the north like a freight train trying to make up lost time!
Okay, now I like the seasons as much as the next guy out there... but seriously! This bitter cold is the one thing that I really can't stand! Maybe it has to do with my stint in Africa this summer... I am just not conditioned for cold weather anymore! Or maybe it has to do with my rediscovered love of the outdoors. Quite possibly it really has only to do with my aversion to change... change in weather, change in lifestyle, change in interactions.
What is it about the cold that makes us withdraw... We don't interact as much, there's not as much to go out and do... We kinda draw back into our houses, or coffee shops to nurse our frigid extremities with warm drinks and temps and block out the outside world. Only to reemerge once the entire world has been covered over in a film of white in order to once again enjoy fellowship with the rest of the world.
Then, by the time the spring rolls around we are so sick of being cooped up inside that we bust out at the first sign of adequate weather and get a nice head cold to accompany our eagerness!
But if it is the aversion to change that I hate so much then maybe the cold is exactly what I need.
See life is all about change and if we don't learn to accept that fact and "roll with the punches" we end up being knocked to the floor, or knocked out!
Seems God has a lot of change already planned for our lives, so we might as well accept it and learn to grow and change... almost a sort of evolution into what/who we really were meant to be!
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