Productivity is not always in season

This caught me this morning:  "The happy ones are like trees, planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in it season, and their leaves do not wither."--Psalm 1

So much is to be said for the flow of seasons in our lives.  We are not productive all of the time.  There are seasons to our productivity and to our work.  There are seasons of rest and waiting and drinking deeply of the streams of water that flow through our lives.

The questions this leads us to ask are:
What are the streams that give you life?
What season are you in?
Is it time to move into a new season of life?

As 2016 moves in, I like to reflect on the purpose of this season and to release myself from the automatic thinking that it's about productivity. Maybe it is...but maybe it is about rest...or about just doing enough, but not too much.

Overdoing is just as soul-harming as underdoing.