TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024 - IN-BETWEEN SEASONS

 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024 THAT BETWEEN SEASON

Depending on where you live, this may be you currently - or in a month or so.

I turned off my heat last Saturday. Yesterday it was 88 degrees in Georgetown Texas. It is currently 67 degrees outside, and I’m just fine in my apartment with the heat off.

I have electric heat and cooling.  The temperature is the main factor in my electricity bill - and I’m trying to be “frugal”. 

It is that “in-between season”.  Not quite warm yet - and yet with warm days.  The forecast for the next two days will have me turning the heat back on.  For Wednesday, the forecast is for a high of 60 and a low of 45; and for Thursday it is to be around 53 degrees with a low of 47.  After that in the ten day forecast the daytime highs will be in the 70s or 80s.  

Yes, I’ll have to turn the heat back on tonight and the next two days.  Then off again.

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Weatherwise, it is the in-between season.  I’ll call it “Spring” - although the official start of spring is three weeks away.  (Of course, Texas weather isn’t the same as South Dakota weather.)

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I liken this to our lives - sometimes we are in an “in-between” season.  My last year of teaching was an in-between year - getting my mind to focus on teaching, students, and work related activities.  But at the same time, looking to retirement.  

And, even in retirement there were (and still are) in-between areas.  Should I continue to play my tuba?  Should I still be the scorekeeper for the Fire Ants Granny Basketball team? [I’m not playing this year.]

In most of my academic life I was tenured.  I knew I had a job and income - and didn’t have to worry about those things.  I have a friend who lost his job three months ago (company was bought out) and is definitely in-between on most issues of life.  

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I do write about spiritual things frequently.  Am I in-between there to?  I’m assuming there is a heaven - but I really don’t know.  Christian Scriptures talk about it - but other religions have different views.  And, will I be welcomed into heaven?  

I’m single and in-between on that.  I have friends but I miss the companionship and love of a committed marriage.  

James 1:6-8 talks about being “double-minded’. “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.  That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”

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Maybe I need to set down, pray, seek for directions, do more planning.  Maybe I need to find that “peace and rest”.

LOVE WINS

LOVE TRANSFORMS

Karen Anne White, ©, February 27, 2024