Naming Your Season
Before we go any further this month, let’s pause.
Not to analyze.
Not to fix.
But to notice.
What season of family life are you in right now?
Are you:
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Learning how to stand on your own?
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Building a marriage or partnership?
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Parenting young children?
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Navigating the intensity of adolescence?
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Launching a child into adulthood?
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Redefining yourself after they’ve gone?
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Caring for aging parents?
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Holding grief alongside gratitude?
You don’t have to fit neatly into one category. Many of us straddle more than one season at a time (personally, I am straddling several of these). Life is rarely linear.
The invitation for January is simple but powerful:
Tell the truth about where you are.
Not where you think you should be.
Not where others expect you to be.
But where you truly are emotionally, relationally, spiritually.
God meets us there.
“He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10)
Tomorrow, we’ll begin walking through the stages of family life. It is fresh on my mind because of what I have been doing for the last couple of months. So, slowly, compassionately, and with grace, we will travel through these stages.
You don’t have to rush.
Honestly, you don’t have to be ready.
You just have to be willing to begin.
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