A Good Season

It is nice to live in a place where you experience all four seasons.  I could live without much winter because I don't like being cold but it is still fun to have a snow day!  My favorite seasons are spring and summer because I love seeing everything bloom and grow.

We can also have seasons of life.  Some seasons we wish we could live without.  It is during those times that we have learned how to grow stronger like the roots of a little sapling that is planted.  We went through what I would call a long winter, not the weather kind, but the kind that brought a lot of not-so-happy times and difficult times.  We had to learn to forgive people and rely on others.  Throughout it all, God held us and helped us be strong.  

Now we are at a good season, one where we can see the blooms and where we can see how we have grown.  Our daughter is flourishing and having a good third grade year.  Her young author book won at the school level, district level and went to the regional level.  She did an art project that advanced to be judged at a state level.  She is on a great cheer team that has taken 1st place at each event, except for one where almost the whole team got the yucky stomach flu.  We are in a wonderful church that is so loving and encouraging to us.  They truly love each other and desire to share the love of God.  It is a good season.