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Seasons
By Helena Cabral
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an you feel it? The change of a new season has begun. Fall is here. There’s a dramatic shift happening from the hazy diffused hues of Summer. What comes to mind for this season: vibrancy, boldness, texture, strength… transition. The days may be warm, but the nights soon will turn chill and crisp. The final harvest is brought in and what has been sown is reaped.
The Autumn Woman Are you an Autumn woman? The Autumn woman is one who is committed to the broader community, a giving woman. Once she discovers her value and heals from the sorrows she experienced in the winters of her life, she has a responsibility to give back. She recognizes the needs beyond the walls of her personal world and explores ways to give as she prepares a new dream or broadens the old. She also learns that her being is more important than her doing. She learns to renew her personal spirit by sitting quietly before God. This is a season
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of faith. That what she accomplishes has meaning. She begins to see the purpose for the winters, summers, and springs of her life. The purpose in former sufferings and in her own personal journey. I urge you to read Hebrews 12- the whole chapter- but particularly, Hebrews 12:11 (NIV): “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” There’s wisdom in this scripture. The Autumn woman has been trough the refiner’s fire. She has been disciplined and she yields in this season of “the peaceful fruit of righteousness” The Autumn woman is one who: • Understands the process of growth • Learns power and peace through personal discipline • Gives out of her storehouse of harvested produce for the benefit of others. She acts for the common good, not in self -interest. In which season are you at? It’s important to identify this, the season that best describes you. Only you can make that discovery. It’s a deeper understanding of
