Don't fight the season!

Dear Friends-

I hope this email finds you blessed and highly favored.

I've been struggling to balance my life now that I'm back to an official 9-5 (hence the spottiness of your messages from me).

Today I was blessed with a few minutes of quiet and I thought about being so extraordinarily busy after 18 months of consulting on my own. I thought about the concept of reaping and sowing but couldn't figure out what season I was in.

God spoke to me and now I understand. The scripture below illustrates my understanding even further...

The years at my last job were for learning and hard work. Those were my sowing years. The early years of marriage, the job you had before you were laid off, the years after financial ruin, these are all "the sowing years" characterized by learning, hard work, mistakes, pain and occasional fun.

The Bible verses below tell the people of Isarael ..." sow, and then REST!"

No matter how we much fight the season of rest and eat from "untended vines", God will shut all doors of opportunity until we stop. When the kids grow up and leave home, when you reduce your living expenses, and when we're unemployed, these are periods of rest.

How do you know you're in a period of rest? Everything you do to take advantage of "the next best solution will fail.

Finally, after working and sufficient rest, God will shower us with favor- overwhelming favor. We will reap what we've sown and it is such a wonderful blessing when it comes.

Don't worry, the right job will come soon and your financial matters will work out.

Accept your season and plan for the next one!

Stay blessed,

K.

Leviticus 25:1 (Whole Chapter)
[ "The Land Will Observe a Sabbath to God" ] God spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you enter the land which I am going to give you, the land will observe a Sabbath to God. Sow your fields, prune your vineyards, and take in your harvests for six years. But the seventh year the land will take a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a Sabbath to God; you will not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Don't reap what grows of itself; don't harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land gets a year of complete and total rest. But you can eat from what the land volunteers during the Sabbath year—you and your men and women servants, your hired hands, and the foreigners who live in the country, and, of course, also your livestock and the wild animals in the land can eat from it. Whatever the land volunteers of itself can be eaten.