Every Season

I've been revamping the I-pod with some new running music and remembered how much I love this song by Nicole Nordeman. I've referred to my life with the Lord in seasons more lately than ever before. I love the times in life when He is so clearly at work and progress is evident. I tend to freak completely out when it seems He has stepped back to see how we will walk with what He's shown me. And most days I'm content to live somewhere in the middle content that He's at work whether I see it or not.

Every evening sky, an invitation
To trace the patterned stars
And early in July, a celebration
For freedom that is ours
And I notice You In children’s games
In those who watch them from the shade
Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder
You are summer

And even when the trees have just surrendered
To the harvest time
Forfeiting their leaves in late September
And sending us inside
Still I notice You when change begins
And I am braced for colder winds
I will offer thanks for what has been and was to come
You are autumn

And everything in time and under heaven
Finally falls asleep
Wrapped in blankets white, all creation
Shivers underneath
And still I notice you
When branches crack
And in my breath on frosted glass
Even now in death, You open doors for life to enter
You are winter

And everything that’s new has bravely surfaced
Teaching us to breathe
What was frozen through is newly purposed
Turning all things green
So it is with You
And how You make me new
With every season’s change
And so it will be
As You are re-creating me
Summer, autumn, winter, spring