QUESTION OF THE DAY#9: "What's your favorite season of the year?"

As Fall waits to unfold here in Wisconsin, I'm eager to begin my favorite season! Fall is the time of harvest. It is the time of the changing of the leaves to all their brilliant colors. It is a time where it is really refreshing and enjoyable to be out in nature. There's just something about Fall that I can't even put into words. Plus, it is a time where you don't have to mow the lawn as much or shovel snow! What is your favorite season?

So often we think that what we're going through is unchangeable, written in stone. We think that we're stuck and that there is no way to get past that obstacle that is frustrating at the moment. In spite of that, life is about seasons. It changes. It unfolds. You plant. You change. You grow. You produce a harvest, and then you start over. It's like that passage from Ecclesiastes that was made famous when it was turned into a song:

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace." --Ecclesiastes 3:1-8