There are times in anyone's life when energy is high. Purpose is clear and projects are being produced. God is being served. The speaker at the women's online retreat went through a sparse time recently. Instead of being at her pastor husband's side, counseling people in her church, she needed to stay at home. Her health and her children made it so. 

Just like so many of us when a change puts us at a stay, she felt her life had been cut off. Who was she now anyway? Was she still God's child? Logically she knew that she was, but since she wasn't actually doing anything in the area God had gifted her, she felt adrift. Not the same, somehow left out.

As she spoke of this I reminded myself that we all have seasons we go through. But....  I know the ache of  not feeling as worthy anymore.

I had started to draw trees to  illustrate the seasons and a  flash of insight caught my pen. Even though trees go through fall, winter, summer, spring, the tree itself remains the same. The tree is still a tree,  It is no less of a tree just because leaves have turned brown and fallen off. Nor was it somehow more of a tree when green leaves have sprouted and fruit grows on the branches.

We may feel jealous of the evergreen, who is always producing green. But that is who God made this tree to be.  And that is okay.

Whether you are in the fall, or spring right now, you are still what God has made you. Continue to talk with God, read His word, and rest your soul. You are His child. He loves you no matter what the season, because you are still the same tree.