Proper 22 B - Song of Solomon 2:11,12 - Change your Moods

"For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land."
~Song of Soloman 2:11,12

" There are seasons in life and there are seasons of the soul - the springtime when faith is born; the summer when faith matures; the reaping and harvesting in the fall; and the dark time, the winter, when you walk over frozen ground and you're sure nothing will ever grow again. I don't know of a single Christian who, in his pilgrimage, could testify that his faith enjoyed springtime always. Everyone has the wintertime of the soul.

Get aquainted with your emotional cycles. Make no decisions in a low time. Make no commitments in a low season. When you're in winter, be calm, be quiet and wait. The mood of strength will return!

The low times that come are generally very natural, very providential. They are planned for you to calm down, slow down, refill, rethink, regroup, realign, get a new perspective, take another check of your values, recheck your goals, and before you know it, winter is passed. Spring returns with a new aspect of your faith reborn. "

" Summer, winter, spring, and fall
God is in control of all. "

Robert H. Schuller, Living Powerfully One Day at a Time; Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey; 1982. Pg. 147.