A Season of New Beginnings

Jake Frost ponders the new beginning of Easter time, how Easter came amid chaos, not calm, and how to start our new beginnings despite the messiness of our busy daily lives.

Spring is on the way, and I want to make this a season of new beginnings for our family.

Some seasons seem longer than others, some seem harder than others, and sometimes you can be feeling gray and ground down without even realizing it. Then the wind shifts, carrying a new scent of warmer days and growing things, a shaft of sunlight pierces unexpectedly through the clouds, and suddenly you realize the dimness that had settled over everything unnoticed.

Like Theoden at the coming of Gandalf. When the light finally comes in, and the windows are open to the fresh air, life comes again to the royal halls of Rohan.

Ready for a Rejuvenating Change

I feel like our family is ready for a rejuvenating change. It’s time to shake off the doldrums, break out of our ruts, and get our mojo back.

We need a time of new beginning!

And this is the perfect season for it — Easter is here!

And spring!

And a new baby!

So new beginnings are literally upon us, whether we’re ready or not, so I say: Let’s embrace it!

Today Could Be the Day

We’ve now reached that stage of the pregnancy where any day could be the day.

It can be a daunting prospect, when there’s a lot going on already with five other kids and jobs and things are stressful and messy and you don’t feel all prepared for the new baby to arrive.

How does that always happen with a new baby? When you first find out a new baby is on the way, it always seems like it’s far off in the misty future. Then suddenly, the time has arrived!

Being in the midst of a super busy time of life already doesn’t necessarily feel like the obvious moment for contemplating new horizons. But the crucial thing for new beginnings isn’t clearing the calendar. It’s clearing the heart — sweeping out the cobwebs of past failings and disappointments and false distractions and all the little things that can crowd our minds and souls and block out the sunshine.

Easter: The Ultimate Time of New Beginnings

After all, Easter is the ultimate time of new beginnings, and it came amid chaos, not calm. When Jesus came to the apostles in the Cenacle, The Upper Room where The Last Supper had been held, a room still existing and preserved today in Jerusalem, the Apostles were shut in, hiding, no doubt scrambling inside, trying to figure out what had just happened and what was going to happen next.

And then Jesus came, and He breathed on them, and made all things new (John 20:22). Just as God breathed on man in Genesis to give man life (Genesis 2:7), on the day of His Resurrection God breathes on man again to give man new life.

So new beginnings, new life, can come — even in the middle of muddle and messiness.

Things don’t have to be the way they have been. They can be different.

And when Jesus came to the apostles in the Cenacle to make things different, He started with changing the Apostles, not the Apostles’ circumstances.

What we need to change our lives isn’t out there. It isn’t in winning the lottery. It’s in our own hearts.

There are probably a lot of cobwebs to sweep away in the process of working on that. It can be overwhelming. But it isn’t necessary that we do everything to do anything. Starting with one thing is all it takes. Then another. And with each one that’s cleared away, a little more sunlight can come in.

One place I’m trying to start is with gratitude. When it’s time for dinner, instead of grudging “having” to make dinner again — they want to eat EVERY night?! — I’m trying to be grateful for that I have food to eat and a family to eat it with, and the chance to make a family dinner enjoyed by all together, a chance to make memories, to share love.

A chance to have life, and have it more abundantly — and that’s why Jesus came (John 10:10).

And hopefully, if we can let more and more of the light in, the new lives entrusted for a time into our care can grow up in a happy home, to begin their own journeys with roots formed in love and life.

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