For everything there is a season,

And a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3.1

Sometimes you just need to trust.

There are no answers.

I feel that I am definitely entering a season in my life, where trust is the only thing that makes sense.

So many of us are dealing with issues that we thought were going to be years away. Our parents are getting older, and in many cases becoming dependent on us. Our children are facing futures that are not quite as secure or as bright as we have led them to believe they would be. We are dealing with illness, senility and death. And an economy that just feels like it is taking longer to recover than we hoped. Winter....

So what keeps us going? I have to trust in a better future no matter what today looks like. It just makes sense to me. I believe that the lessons that we are learning today are helping us become the people that we are meant to be. It's not an easy journey, and often it seems like our days in the valleys are deeper and colder and longer than those days on the mountain top. But man, when you are on the mountain top, it takes your breath away! Summer...

I wake up in the morning, knowing that whatever my day will bring, there is a lesson to be found within it somewhere. I am learning compassion with those who need me right now and trust that whatever I am doing in the latter parts of their lives will be remembered somewhere along the line. I am learning to trust in another dimension, another place that will give our souls the freedom to be everything that we hoped to be. A place where Love is the only answer. I am learning patience with the younger generation and trust that when they fall, I have given them the tools to pick themselves up, without any assistance.

It's a risky proposition this trust thing. But the alternative sucks. So I am going to continue to trust in a better world for my grandchildren, a better economy and future for our kids, a warm and safe and loving environment for my older family members, and an incredible Heaven for those who have journeyed ahead of me. I will trust in a God that is so much bigger than anything that I could possibly imagine and that loves me more than my mind can acknowledge. There is no way that my God would allow winter to go on forever. No, I will trust in the changing of the seasons......