In Season

We spent yesterday in Norman, shopping for new Fall and Winter clothes for Levi and Noah. We do this every year, and every year, the boys grow a little faster than I thought they would. This year was no exception. It was, however, the first time that my kids began to think about style- what's in season. Noah fell in love with a fake leather jacket at Target. I've never witnessed such a romance. It was like they were separated at birth. When he acted up in the car on the way home, I wondered aloud whether we should give that jacket to another little boy. Noah replied, "But he wouldn't know how to take care of it!" Levi is at the age where he is really concerned what others think of him. I hate that. I want him to know his own worth, his value in the eyes of God. I miss the days where he hated to shop. His only words then were, "I don't care, Mom. Can we just go home?" Now it's, "Mom, that's lame." or "Wo! This is sick!" Time marches on without permission. My little boys are growing into young men quickly. Today, Noah's Science lesson was all about the rotation of the earth around the sun, explaining the "cycles" we go through each day and night and the season we go through each year. We spent a lot of time talking about our closeness to the sun and how it affects the seasons. I tried to impress upon him how amazing it is that God put us just the right distance from the sun- not too hot or too cold- just right. We couldn't stand it any closer or any further away. I began turning it over in my head. We are in a new season for sure, right here in the Hinson household. Big changes approach. Just the wondering is enough to make us spin out of orbit! But we are trying to maintain our position, facing the Son. Every day, someone asks the dreaded question, "When will your boys be coming home?" Every day, my reply is the same, "I don't know. We're just waiting." It gets a little more difficult to say each time. But even in this uncertain season, God is constant. He knows the date of their home coming.

He said to them,"It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority." Acts 1:7


"And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9


"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh;a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose;a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew;a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

So we will kick back and relax in this season, knowing that God will provide- He always has.

Whatever season you are in, blessings upon you and your family.