"What Feels Like Loss"

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I know winter isn’t everyone’s favorite.
The overcast skies, the cold that drives us indoors, and the early setting of the sun can feel heavy. Creation looks like it’s withering…but in truth, it’s resting. It’s resetting. Those bare trees still hold the treasure of a new season waiting to come. There are so many lessons here for our hearts.

And sometimes winter feels like death—
death to old perspectives, unhealthy mentalities, or habits that no longer serve us.
Many of us resist this season because we fear the unknown, or the discomfort of not being in control. But dear heart, just as the trees cannot hold both last season’s leaves and this season’s at the same time, we cannot make room for new perspectives and opportunities while clinging to the old.

We often try to hold onto things that were never meant to follow us into our future. We resist the rest, the early nights, and the cloudy skies because they don’t feel fun or productive.

But God placed wisdom in creation for us to learn from.
Don’t fear the ending of something.
Don’t fear the stripping away, the pause, the quiet. Sometimes we must let go…
to make room for what God is bringing next.

Don’t fear the ending of something.
What feels like loss may be preparation.
Trust the season you’re in.
God is not finished—He’s making room for what’s next.

“There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot what has been planted.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1–2