Name Your Season

Read these four descriptions slowly. None of them is better or worse than another; each is simply a landscape a soul can be traveling through. Which one is closest to the season you are in right now?

I am in a fairly steady season. I feel God's presence more often than not, and I am here because I want to go deeper, not because I am unraveling. I want practices and companionship that form me, and a place to be tended before the next hard season arrives.

I am in an overgrown, tangled season. My mind will not stop. I am vigilant, spinning, carrying too much, and even my prayer feels like one more task I am failing at. I do not need more input. I need to learn how to come down and rest.

I am in a dry, quiet season. I keep showing up and serving, but inside I feel numb, distant, or spiritually dry. I am not in crisis; I am just not sure I feel much of anything anymore, and that frightens me more than tears would.

I am in an acute season. Something has happened, or is happening, that has knocked the ground out: a loss, a betrayal, a crisis in my family, my church, or my body. I am here because I cannot keep white-knuckling this alone.