Collin County Living Well Magazine May/June 2016 | Page 14

Change is in the Air
By Michelle Wallace

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his is a season of change. Many of us are on
a journey, moving from one place to another.
Divine assignments and realignments! Perhaps
you’ve been there. Maybe, like me, you find
yourself going through a change of season
now. We’re always going through changes, but there
are those watershed moments that bring major shifts in
our lives and they are never easy! Transition may be
exciting and adventurous but it can also be rough.

out with him. Verse 12 explains the season for pruning
has arrived. This is the part of the process that can be
painful, letting go of things in the past and patiently
waiting for the new thing to begin. But verse 12 ends
on an uplifting note with the cooing of doves in our
land. The turtledove is only heard at the time of harvest.
And harvest represents abundance. Even when things
around us appear to be in chaos or lack, we can live in
a place of abundance when we’re living in our purpose.

Song of Songs 2:11:13 expresses the heart of the
Bridegoom-King: The season has changed, the bondage
of your barren winter has ended, and the season of
hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth
and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season
for pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of
doves in our land, filling the air with songs to awaken
you and guide you forth. Can you not discern this new
day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early
signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The
budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere.
The fragrance of flowers whispers,“There is change in
the air.” Arise, my love, my beautiful companion, and
run with me to the higher place. For now is the time to
arise and come away with me. (The Passion Translation)

There’s a story in 1 Kings about a prophet named
Elijah. The short version is that God told Elijah to go to
a certain brook where he would have water and food
to live in the midst of a drought. Eventually the brook
dried up and Elijah was told to go to a widow who
had been instructed by God to feed him. This is one
of those times where we see the whole story, so to us
it can be humorous. It wasn’t so funny for the widow.
When Elijah arrived and asked her for bread she looked
at him like he was crazy. Apparently, she didn’t get
God’s memo. She said, “As the Lord your God lives, I
have no bread, only a handful of flour in a jar and a
little oil in a bottle: you found me scratching together
just enough firewood to make a meal for my son and
me. Here comes the funny part, she says, “That we
might eat it and die.” Well, it’s funny when I read it,
because I know how the story ends. It’s not so funny
when I’m a character in one of these grand plays!

In verse 11 the rains speak of the outpouring of God’s
Spirit that brings refreshing and prepares her to move

Connect with Michelle at www.HandofTheKing.com.

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COLLIN COUNTY Living Well Magazine | MAY/JUNE 2016