What a party. What a celebration.
We hugged our twin granddaughters, Kate and Ali, and started the drive home still glowing from their high‑school graduation party. The venue had been full of laughter, music, stories, and the kind of joy that makes you forget time is moving at all. But as we pulled away, the smiles softened. The laughter quieted. And somewhere between that driveway and ours, the truth settled in.
A season had changed.
The next morning, our son Jeremy — the twins’ dad — put words to what we were all feeling. He texted us a reflection that stopped me in my tracks. Drawing from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, he wrote:
“It didn’t really land ‘til we were on the way home last night. Then it all hit me that nothing will ever be the same again. It’s funny, as a kid we read The Raven and you think, why is this considered horror? Then you age and you learn the weight of ‘Nevermore.’ The fact that every moment that has ever been will never be the same again, and it all lands very differently.”
That’s powerful insight right there. And it’s true. Life’s seasons move on relentlessly — sometimes gently, sometimes abruptly — and we’re left blinking, wondering, What just happened? When did everything change?
So let me ask you: What season are you in?
🌱 Spring — The Season of Beginnings
Spring is the season of firsts — first steps, first dreams, first risks, first hopes. It’s childhood and youth, but it’s also any moment when God whispers, “Start again.” Spring is tender, green, and full of possibility. Seeds go into the ground long before we know what they’ll become.
Spring teaches us to trust the planting.
☀️ Summer — The Season of Work and Nurturing
Summer hums with energy. It’s the season of building — careers, families, ministries, skills, character. What we planted in spring now demands attention. Summer is full, sometimes overwhelmingly so. But it’s also where growth happens in ways we don’t always see until much later.
Summer teaches us to stay faithful in the heat.
🍂 Autumn — The Season of Harvest and Fulfillment
Autumn is the season of reaping — not just rewards, but wisdom. It’s the time when we look back and realize the seeds we planted decades ago have become shade trees for others. Autumn is beautiful, but it’s also a season of release. Leaves fall. Children grow up. Chapters close.
Autumn teaches us to let go with gratitude.
❄️ Winter — The Season of Endurance and Hidden Growth
Winter is quiet. Sometimes painfully so. It’s the season of loss, waiting, stillness, and questions. But winter is never wasted. Beneath the frozen ground, roots deepen. Strength forms. Clarity sharpens. Winter prepares us for a renewal we cannot yet imagine.
God often does His best work in places we cannot easily see.
Turning “Nevermore” into “Evermore”
Every season carries its own version of nevermore — never again this moment, never again this age, never again this chapter.
But in Christ, nevermore is never the last word.
Because every season also carries a quiet promise of evermore — evermore grace, evermore presence, evermore life, evermore renewal.
As Ecclesiastes reminds us: “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”
So whatever season you find yourself in today — spring’s beginnings, summer’s labor, autumn’s harvest, or winter’s waiting — may you sense the God who walks with you through them all.
And may every “nevermore” become a doorway to His “evermore.”
