Written by Crystal G.H. Lowery
Written on September 3, 2023
It’s sometimes a chore to live in these human bodies. It is not uncommon to get caught up in what we actually need to do and all the other things our own hands unnecessarily pile on our plates. Why do we so often punish ourselves and live beneath the standard that Christ provided for us?
We hear so often (and rightly so) that we need to renew our minds to God’s Truth, His Word, and His Goodness. I think that is a wonderful thing and I teach that and on a personal level, try to do that daily as well. But, we often make God’s simple principles so complicated.
I don’t think that God intended for our lives to be so busy, so full of minute-by-minute grueling responsibilities that we allow to overtake our lives. We get so busy and so overloaded that we don’t have time or make time to slow down to see what is in front of us – beauty in every season that God made for us to enjoy! Yes, we are to be responsible. The point here is that WE make life complicated. These are our own choices, not what God designed for us.
I often think about how when school is over for the summer, there is summer vacation. This is a time to relax, refresh, rejuvenate, and prepare to the next season. This, I think, is supposed to be a time of less to do and less on our schedules, rather than more and more, just downright complicated and stressful months on end. Yet, because we feel so limited in our “free” time, we pack vacations, camps, trips, events, and before long, the “free” time is more committed than what we think of as our “productive months”. When the fall season begins and school resumes, we are more tired than we were at the end of school.
Now, is the time of year where school has started again so many people and families. The seasons are changing. Newness is in the air. Freshness, crispness is finally available to us as we sit on our front porches and are relieved from the heat and humidity of the dog days of summer. Of course, there is pumpkin spice everything and fresh, baked apples to enjoy and taste.
This is the time of year where the leaves change color and the beauty of autumn is in full bloom. There is a peak season in each area of the country where, if you time it just right, you can take in the overwhelming beauty of the fall foliage – from the beautiful shades of green, orange, yellow to red in the Appalachian Mountains to the wonderful green to gold color of the Aspens in Colorado, our Creator has designed seasons of change that show us new kinds of beauty for us to enjoy.
We might have our heads down, drenched and soggy, absorbed in our own issues and circumstances, but around us is life brimming with possibility and hope. The Lord created the world around us and for us and it is GOOD!
I’ve been hearing for several weeks now this phrase, “Peep and open your eyes to my healing beauty!” It’s time. The season is now. It is upon us.
Let’s renew our minds not only to the “deep” things of God, but also to the goodness and beauty of creation that He made for us to enjoy. This is a new season. People plan road trips to enjoy the majestic autumn wonders that are available during this season. Leaf peepers abound at peak season with their eyes full of wonder, their cameras ready to capture the sites, and their hearts to be filled with only what our Creator and Lover of our Souls can provide us. It’s not a fickle thing, not an unspiritual thing, but something highly spiritual and beautiful that is made just for us at just the right season in life.
Take time to renew your mind, open your eyes, slow down, and allow your hearts and souls to be refreshed and nourished by the beauty of this season. Take a road trip with your Creator and don’t be embarrassed to be a leaf peeper. Be a peeper at the beauty of the world, hope, faith, and love that the Lord has placed all around us.
“Taste and see that the Lord is good…” – Psalm 34:8 AMPC
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Crystal G.H. Lowery, Esq. is a Christian Estate Planning Attorney and is the owner and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC. She is also an ordained minister who has a passion for sharing Jesus. Based on Faith is an organization whose vision is to become an international resource that increases biblical knowledge of faith within the Body of Christ through comprehensive teaching, discussion of law, and the prophetic.
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