Stewarding Your Season: A Series

This present moment. Your current season. Living fully right where you are.

I tend to write a lot about these themes here on this blog. I’m passionate about helping you live fully right where you are, as I’ve been learning how to do so over the last few years. There’s something about understanding where we are and embracing it fully that leads to a more fulfilling life. And something about that inspires me to put it into digestible words for us to absorb and learn from.

Your Current Season

Consider these questions: Where do you find yourself at the present moment? What season of life do you find yourself in? And what are you doing about it?

For me, I’m in a season of learning to be content with the ordinary. My season is one of planting seeds that will flourish later. It’s a time of rediscovering who I am in a way that speaks truth to my current circumstances. And to be honest, sometimes I feel lost in these moments and long for something more exciting. Sometimes I wish for a moment where I can see the fruit of what I’m doing right now.

So many of us are going through the motions. We hurry through life, looking forward to the next thing. We run away from our struggles and have a hard time believing that there is goodness in trials. And sometimes, like me, the ordinary or monotony of daily life seems trivial, and we long for more. We lack gratitude for what we have right now.

But what if I told you that your current season is meant to be stewarded well? What if we lived in such a way that showed that we are thankful for what God has given—even when it’s difficult and painful?

Where you are right now—in any season—is an invitation into a fuller life. And through proper stewardship, we can embrace everything that God has intended for us.

Stewardship

Typically when we think about stewardship, we think about tithing or giving. While that’s certainly part of it—stewarding our finances well by giving back to the Giver—stewardship goes so much deeper than that.

Stewardship is taking good care of the things entrusted to us during our time on earth. It is using the good gifts God has given us to pursue our God-given purpose, serve others well, and bring further glory to God. And we can do that with our finances, our material possessions, and yes, even our season of life. 

Where you find yourself today didn’t happen by accident. I believe that God has you where you are for a reason. He has placed people in your life who will shape you, circumstances that will challenge you and help you grow, and seasons that hold profound lessons. And when God gives, it is an invitation to partner with him within this world.

Your current season of life was given as an invitation to live it fully, embracing all that it brings, and using it to bring glory to God. We can do all of that well when we steward this very moment that God has given.

When we steward our current season well, we are opening ourselves up to a fuller, more fulfilling life. Our lives are more in the present moment. They are intentional and focused.

When we live a more intentional life, stewarding well what has been given, we can:

• Experience God more fully in our life

• Connect deeper with others

• Learn what God is intending for us to learn through our circumstances

• Grow a deeper trust for God and his provision

• Live a more fulfilled life

• Become the people we are meant to become

• Find real peace and contentment

What to Expect

This series is intended to help you learn how to steward your current season well, even if your current circumstances aren’t what you wanted or hoped for. We will learn together how we can better care for these days that have been entrusted to us.

Over the next month, I will be exploring this idea of stewarding our current season well with the four steps:

1. Understanding Where We Are: Figuring out exactly what season of life you are in so you can steward it well.

2. Accepting Where We Are: Learning how to accept the season of life you are in, especially if it’s something you wish was different.

3. Changing Our Perspective: Beginning to view the season of life you are in as an invitation and a privilege.

4. Making a Choice to Live More Presently: Finding practical ways to live more intentionally and presently and choosing to do so.

My hope is that by the end of this series, you will be equipped to steward whatever season of life God gives well. May we be people who are willing to walk the path God has given, no matter how painful or challenging. May we become people who seek God first even amongst life’s deepest difficulties. And may we always remember that our steps in life have purpose. Let’s steward them well.