A time for everything

A time for everything

Gen 8:22 As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."

These times were instituted, and when we used to be farmers, they were obvious to notice. It was obvious what was the meaning of harvesting, and what was the meaning of planting.

When looking at the cycle on a specialised farm, there is a time of preparing the soil, followed by planting, then a period of waiting, and then the harvest. When the harvest has been gathered, there is a tremendous sense of the year’s work being done. Then there is a time of waiting, before the next season starts.

A natural rhythm

That cycle created a natural rhythm, with two periods of tremendous effort working day and night during the planting and the harvesting seasons, a period of daily tending the crops – between these two, and a period of rest – after the harvest, before the next planting seaon.

But today we tend to live lives that just continue, from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year. The biggest impact of the seasons changing is that we change from running air-conditioners to running heaters, and we change the clothes we wear. It has no impact on our work.

If I am not mistaken, then generally, early spring was the time to begin to till and plant. Summer was the time of growth, tending, watering etc. Autumn came the harvest, and then Winter, nothing much happened.

I wonder …

I wonder what would happen if I started living my life in this kind of seasonal cycle.

Spring I will begin to start up some writing projects and work the long hard hours throughout the summer, when the evenings are warm and beautiful and in the day you really don’t want to do much other than be in an air-conditioned office. Then by the time autumn comes, I’d be ready for publishing – so I’ll send out the manuscripts, and then go into winter, relaxing, having little to worry about, enjoying the cold winter nights with my family and using the cool winter days to regain my strength, doing a lot of reading and research – letting the ground of my brain rest, as it were. By the time spring came around, I would be bubbling over with ideas and thoughts.

I wonder how that would be.