What Season of Your Life Are you In?
Wednesday Wisdom. The Season of Your Life.
On Monday, I had the great joy of holding a sacred circle with a group from the School of Applied Theology here in the Bay Area. The prayer focus for our time together was to reflect upon the season of our lives. To begin our time together, we sat quietly praying with the passage in Ecclesiastes.
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 throw 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 throw 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.
What season of your life are you in?
The responses from the group were so moving:
- the season of surrender
- the season of building with God
- the season of the unknown
- the season of moving
- the season of thankfulness
- the season to speak
- the season to plant
After quiet prayer, each person selected an image that represented their season of life. Praying with Images can be a powerful way of facilitating insight.
I chose an image of two egrets building a nest, each with a piece of a branch in its beak. There was such a sense of togetherness, and I immediately realized that I was in the season of building a nest, a place to be receptive, and I was building this with God.
What season of your life are you in?
I invite you this week to pray with the passage from Ecclesiastes; to find an image (from a magazine, art book, online) that reflects this season; and to share this season of your life more intimately with God.