Here in Charlotte, North Carolina, we are experiencing the dog days of summer. I’m ready to experience the next season, how about you?
Understanding the times and seasons is important for any organizational leader. Discerning the times and seasons for our personal formation is critically important. This has an impact on everything under our leadership. All that we have been given to steward from our marriage, our family, our profession, and our finances will depend on our ability to navigate how well we grow through each new season of life.
In The Master’s Program, we call this the Renewal Cycle.
These life seasons resemble the summer, fall, winter, and spring. Everyone loves the summer, we are on all cylinders, we’re in the ZONE – this is called the GO FOR IT stage. Eventually, the excitement and challenge wanes and we enter the fall or the DOLDRUMS. This season starts with a slight annoyance, we become bored with routine and what had once lustered no longer holds our fascination. We become disenfranchised, perhaps even disconnected. Before long we make a defining decision to either transition back to summer or enter the COCOON. This can feel like winter. For a sanguine like me, it’s the season I feel most isolated and if I’m not careful I will resist it. The truth is this is where we experience the most transformation. Only God can release us from this season when the time is right. As we emerge from the cocoon, we have wings to soar to a new level of growth. Transitioning into the spring we are now experiencing the excitement of new trails to blaze. This is the GET READY stage, where we have newfound capacity for increase.
This was a very powerful session for me in The Master’s Program. It helped me discover the unique ways God has designed me to discern and leverage each season as it comes. With this critical competency we can always be ready for what’s coming, preparing to life-launch into new territories through life mastery on our way to fulfilling life mission.
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Nadya Dickson
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