Every Season - Nichole Nordeman

Cabin FEVER and the Great Physician...

Summer. Sweet Summer....why do you FORSAKE US SO??? TOO HOT at noon to even GO to the pool. And, thunder keeps us out at night. The end of July in South Carolina is as predictable as the geysers in Yellowstone. Temperature over a hundred without the humidity...and smokin' HOT on your skin due to the humidity. Kids getting the cabin fever I remember desperately suffering in the month of February living in Iowa. OH! You can see daylight through the window pane...yet LONG to enjoy it. The window gives you one impression...but the reality of heat or cold KEEP you from being a part of what you see. One of those odd situations of being surrounded by what you love, crave and enjoy and...but you simply can not take part in it. Weather...predictable, but totally OUT of your control. God designed it that way...

But what about our lives? You know in your head how things are supposed to be. Time spent with family, spiritual life, efforts put toward school, time with friends...but for one reason or another, you are separated from it. We find ourselves looking out "the window" . Are you suffering from CABIN FEVER with the things that make your life WORTH LIVING???? Are you surrounded by all the things you KNOW you LOVE, need, care for...but the window pane is playing a dirty trick on you?

God designed for us to be IN life, enjoying it, taking part in it, spending time with people we love, enjoying places we love, doing activities we love...God designed us to be arm and arm with Christ enjoying all of these things...when we take life on our own,....life becomes like the weather! UNCONTROLLABLE! We become SLAVES to the window panes LONGING for the things we can't have. But with the most awesome physician of Christ...that ol' cabin fever is healed.

...just writing on the fly today. Little RANDOM. It is hot outside...hot hot hot hot hot. FLAMING hot.

been gone...

Been gone? nope. Just not here...This summer is going so fast, I am in total shock. With my parents here, VBS, family vacation, and just plain stuff, I have ignored allowing the inspirations to come. Had all the chances, just didn't take the time. Going to change that!

Seasons come and seasons go. I was not looking forward to summer coming, but as I look forward and I am staring school down I think, wow. Time is flying by. Our family vacation to TN was peppered with all the UNtourist memories. I am blessed beyond reproach. I wanna see double rainbows from a mountain side every day. My boys will remember this the rest of their lives