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“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)

The Summer of Our Lives

It is August where I live and it is hot.  This is some of the worst heat of the year. Storms pop up but don’t stay around long.  Our grass and plants are dry and need water.

The middle of our lives is similar to the summer.  We are doing what we need to do.  We generally have been married/divorced.  The kids are grown and moving off.  We are tired of the hustle and inside we are looking for more.

As I look to this “new normal” of life now with COVID-19. I think about where I have been and where I am going.  I look to the sky for answers and for rain.  

“In the past, he let all nations go their own way.  Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.” 

Acts 14: 16-16-17 (NIV)

I’ve always been a loner so the COVID has not impacted my life too much.  My social activity didn’t change much.

The Routine of It All

Everything just seems blah.  Maybe it is the heat. Life is routine and the days seem to run into each other. Get up. Go to work. Come home. Go to bed then repeat for 60 years.

I read the Bible about “heat” and they feel similarly.

“This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.”

Genesis 31:40 (NIV)

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Genesis 8:22 (NIV)

“For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.”

Psalm 32:4 (NIV)

But then I read in Isaiah 

“This is what the Lord says to me: ‘I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest’.”

Isaiah 18:4 (NIV)

“You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall”

Isaiah 25:4 (NIV)

And in Hosea

“I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.”

Hosea 13:5 (NIV)

God must have been to the South.

Sit Back and Relax

He understands the heat and my wandering mind. I need to center my focus and get it back on Him.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Matthew 11:28 (NIV)

I need to rest from the heat with the one that created me.  Pour us a glass of tea and wait for the next storm to popup.  We can wonder at his creation and I can relax and then I can ask Him why it’s so hot.