As the seasons come and go, games that exist in real time like Animal Crossing can carry both joy and regret… despite our best efforts, the hopes and expectations we set on the game as well as ourselves may not be met. Perhaps the season went by too fast and some of the things we hoped for didn’t happen, or maybe we got exactly what we wanted but it didn’t turn out how we thought it would. Either way, we may leave this current season feeling disappointed… but that is part of what makes the game so much fun to play. Animal Crossing never ends… it always has a new season right around the corner full of new adventures to enjoy. Sure, this season may be winding down, but another one is coming that will be beautiful in its own way.

Even during our favorite times of the year, we all grapple with feelings of disappointment with our situations and how the Lord chooses to resolve them. There will be moments of joy and humor present within our darkest seasons of life, and there will be other times when the sunniest of skies will still rain on our parade.  If this current moment in time doesn’t look or feel as beautiful as we had hoped for, let’s remember that this is just one page in the eternal love story that He is writing to us. On our best days as well as on our worst, His loving plans for us will never change. 

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

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