Why Seasons?

Right now there are a lot of posts on Facebook about how warm its been these past three weeks. Christmas Day we ran around in shorts or fall weather wear. New Year's Day you could sit outside in Shorts and a T-Shirt. It's been crazy; and today, January 2, 2022 neighboring counties are getting winter weather warnings. 

Most of the posts have been funny, and many people are glad "we aren't doing winter" this year. However, the earth, much like the church needs seasons. I come from a family that will not understand liturgy or liturgical seasons because we didn't celebrate them. But to help them understand, because they do read my page, The liturgical calendar helps us celebrate and understand more fully the entire mystery of Jesus Christ, from his Incarnation and birth until his Ascension, the day of Pentecost, and the expectation of his return in glory. The liturgical year reminds us of what is truly important. Sundays remind us that our first duty is to worship God. The seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter remind us of Jesus’ Incarnation, death, and Resurrection and His great love for us.

Just as there are liturgical seasons, so must there be physical seasons. 

God has inscribed this same narrative structure onto the wider canvas of the natural world. Although the seasons don’t line up in perfect parallel with the four acts of the grand narrative, they echo its plot-line via their own annual cycle of life, death and rebirth. Vibrant flourishing life under the summer sun gives way to the fall. Plants wither, animals hibernate and humans huddle through the cold dead of winter. And the world waits with eagerness for the fresh rebirth of another spring. The cycle never concludes, but remains a universal reminder of the ultimate story God is crafting for his creation.

So while yes, it would be amazing for it to be summer all year long, it's not the way God designed the earth. He created the Earth, nature and human's to experience seasons. While we can't say that every season is great, because let's face it not all seasons are wonderful, when the season change and we look back on the previous season, we usually look back on the season with new eyes, now understanding the hardships and lessons of the previous season.