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I’m not good with transitions. Neither is my son, which has been on full display this summer as we switch gears between travel and camp and out of town visitors and playdates and more.
Summer can be like that. It’s just long enough to enjoy a break, but not long enough to really settle into any sort of rhythm or routine. It’s great, it’s fun, it can be jam-packed and exhausting, and just when you think you’re getting the hang of it, it’s time to shift back to the routine of school and life and all the things.
My family’s summer season has been filled with family and friends, visits that were long overdue and also heartbreak and loss. Lots of laughter and plenty of tears. Somedays, we hold both simultaneously. The time together is so sweet and compacted, and it can then amplify the distance when it’s time to part.
I’m constantly learning that life-long lesson from Ecclesiastes 3. God designed life to have a cyclical nature. We go through different phases, experience different seasons, and each one has its own purpose and place. This isn’t a random thing! It’s part of God’s plan for nature, our world, and for us, too. And as hard as it is for me to do so, I know I can embrace each moment, the joyful ones, the ones where we weep, the ones that feel uncertain, because He is unchanging. There is hope and purpose when we trust in Him.
So, as the shift happens from sunscreen to composition books, from sno-balls to PSLs, from hellos to goodbyes, let’s accept and welcome each season, knowing that each one has purpose, and we can find our peace through them all in Jesus.