For Everything There is a Season

“I don’t do much ministry. I should do more, I know it. I am just so busy with work and family and taking care of things.”

A parishioner said this to me one recent Sunday. It was a needed reminder for me that our ministries come and go with the seasons of our lives. Not everyone can run out the door to spend the day, or even an hour, ministering to a hurting world. Our work, family, self-care and myriad other undertakings, in home and community, may be our ministry of this season.

There have been times in my life when I heard no call to minister. There were seasons when I did nothing and let the world tend to itself. Yet, the seed was there, dormant but alive, and now has grown, thanks be to God!

Welcome your seasons as they come and know that, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
Josh