Seasons and Cycles

   A bitter wind whistled through the cracks of the Mayflower, anchored on the shore of Plymouth harbor that first fall of 1620-21. The Pilgrims struggled with poor and meager food (only a few kernels of corn per day), strenuous labor, and the ravages of disease.

   Nearly half of the 102 passengers to the new world did not live to see spring.  But life runs in cycles.  In celebration for the bountiful harvest God had bestowed upon them that fall season, they orchestrated a feast of Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims lived close enough to the soil to know about cycles and seasons and how dependent they were on God’s goodness. They had learned to thank Him in the midst of a dreadful voyage, a bitter winter, and so were quick to give thanks for the blessings He had restored to them that fall.  

   In 1968, Frank Sinatra recorded the hit record “Cycles.”   Some of the lyrics go as follows . . .  
“There isn’t much that I have learned 
Through all my foolish years
Except that life keeps runnin’ in cycles
First there’s laughter, then those tears.
Life is like the seasons
After winter comes the spring
So I'll keep this smile awhile
And see what tomorrow brings”  

 
   Seasons and cycles in life are many times ...

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