Seasons

The other day I overheard two of my co-workers talking about their pregnancies and babies and buying baby things and I was so excited for them! They are only a couple weeks apart on their due dates and they are just so cute.

Not an hour later I watched a family of a familiar patient come out of our therapy gym which had been temporarily used as the room where they had "the" talk. The one where the doctors treating their mom and wife tell them that there is nothing more they will be able to do for her. Her heart is bad and her kidneys are failing and her lungs cannot work on their own.

I know that's what life is about. We are always changing, always moving on toward the next phase of our lives. I've been feeling like I'm in this in-between time right now. I had so much going on and changing so quickly for a long time with college and grad school and getting married and having a real job that this particular time in my life almost seems uneventful.

The strange thing is I feel like this time in my life is when it seems things are changing the most. Rather than me being the one with all the life events and focused on what's next for me, I see how those around me are changing. Friends getting married and having babies, my baby cousin is in college, and seeing grandparents getting older. Some changes bringing great joy and some bringing such sorrow. All part of this particular season in my life.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1