A Fifth Season

Like all seasons, IT too will come and IT will go, But perhaps IT may linger longer to help us grow; And if IT should be prolonged, IT is because God commands IT so. Whether or not IT can be called a season or not, I don't really know, Because seasons aren't just known by their coming and going each year. They are also recognized by what they bring and what they take away from us. Like the Fall season that brings a breeze and the falling of leaves from the trees. Like the Spring that brings resurrection, a new leap of life and fresh scenes of beauty. But upon the disappearing of Autumn, so departs the glorious breathtaking colors of orange. Yes, the luster of the roses of Spring may linger till Fall but never are they as heavenly. THE FIFTH SEASON, if we are permitted to call it thus, will follow this 2020 cloud of death and despair. If after COVID 19 has run its course, we find ourselves more caring and loving, more faithful and true; if we discover that we are less political, less divisive, less hateful, and less cruel, shall we not have experienced gains and not losses? Shall we not have stretched farther than we thought we could? Indeed, a new season shall certainly come as surely as steam follows heated water, as Winter follows Fall. Our new season shall make us better, bigger, stronger, truer, wiser, more lovelier and more alive. After the storm, the battering, and the beating, we shall awaken and rise to a new norm. No, we don't know when, but perhaps by then, after being so severely blown by such fierce winds, we will be able to agree with the wise one who said, "To everything there is a time and season, and a time to every purpose under heaven".* 082420PS *Eccleciastes 3:1