seasons of life | That Helpful Dad

Are you facing a time of trouble? Does it seem like life is going in the wrong direction? If so, then today’s life lesson is specifically for YOU.

Our wisdom today reminds us to keep in mind that…

“There is no winter that lasts forever; the spring will always come.”

Seasons Change

Think about this quote for a moment and allow it to sink in.

There’s a power in these words – they can help you CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE and realize that your life is filled with different ‘seasons.’ Sure it would be great to always be able to live in the ‘summer’ and enjoy life to its fullest every day without any cares in the world – but that’s obviously unrealistic. We all know that our lives are sure to have their fair share of ups and downs.

These are the seasons of our lives.

It’s only natural that we experience periods of growth (spring), plenty (summer), ebb (the fall), and challenge (winter). But always remember…

No season can last forever.

Once we accept this, we can allow ourselves to make the most of each season. We can better appreciate the good times and try to learn from the bad times.

Learn, Growth, Rebirth

If YOU are currently experiencing a winter season of despair, take heart, remember that nothing lasts forever…

There will be end to our sorrow and a time of rebirth and joy will come again with the spring.

Meanwhile, understand this as well – nobody said you have to just sit around and let your winter drag on and on while you do nothing and remain miserable.

Instead, try to take action yourself by endeavoring to learn from your current challenges.
Have you ever considered that there may be lessons that you can learn during your trying times?

The sooner you learn and grow, the sooner you can emerge from your winter and enter a new spring – a period when you can take what you learned from your winter and become an even better person.

Help Yourself, Help Others

Be sure to give this lesson a try in your life and if you have someone you know who could benefit from it, please share this lesson with them as well.

Final Thoughts: today’s lesson was inspired by a quote attributed to Hal Borland – the exact quote is “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” I first heard this quote over a decade ago. It helped me through some tough times back then and keeping it in mind has continued to help me over the years. I’ve since shared it with numerous friends. I hope that it can help you too.

I submit to you the following bit of wisdom from Kahlil Gibran who said, “Your pain is the breaking of a shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the pit of a fruit must break so that the seeds of its heart may find the sun, so you must know pain. And could you but keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, then your pain would not seem less wondrous than you joy — and you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. Then you would watch with serenity during the winters of your grief…”

I find this quote beautiful in so many ways and I hope you can appreciate it as well. We’ve talked in the past about the Seasons of Your Life and how to learn from each of them – particularly periods of struggle (aka Fall and Winter). Gibran has taken that previous lesson and elevated it to another level by adding in the possibility of sensing the wonders of pain as well as joy. I can’t say it will be an easy task to accomplish, but my hope is that you can open your mind to this possibility and thus gain new insights about the true potential that is inside you.