CHANGING SEASONS

The changing seasons are meant to be.

They are a way for you to live happily.
The trees are like life you see.
They have to go to sleep and be protected during the cold winter months.
They turn their leaves to beautiful colors for all to see.

Then they shed them and the trees are bare.
They go into a dormant sleep to be protected during the cold winter months but in the spring new life begins again.
They feel the warm sun and spring alive with green leaves and buds to bring forth fruit or beautiful flowers.
That is how life is, you go through the different stages and different SEASONS OF LIFE.

As you go along you're journey no matter what it may be, an illness of a loved one makes you feel you are in a long deep sleep so to speak never to wake up again or be alive to enjoy all the beauty that God has for you.
But as the days and the years go by, things change like the trees do.
And you feel like you are waking up out of a dream.
You feel like the warmth of sunshine and you spring forth with life again.
You feel you can live again and the season has changed for you.
You are still on the long journey but you see it with different eyes now.
You realize that God has changed you somehow.
You see life is worth living.
You want to be alive and experience all that God has for you.
You appreciated things more and hurt less as time goes by and you realize you cannot change anything but have to grow strong like the mighty oak tree.
You cannot be bent back and forth like a willow tree.

Silky Floss Tree In full bloom

That is what God wants for you.
He gives you strength to go on.
The different changes of the SEASONS are like your life forever changing but for the better.
~Poem by Carolyn A. Hayanali