I love my new artwork (which I bought the yellow “ADAPT” logo this past summer) because it is a constant reminder to adapt and bring your own adapters to life – like to play your 45 record on a turntable for other records – but play on still…. just change the speed… It was also an answer to a clue this summer on a crossword on that same vacation…

I have tried to ADAPT – and sometimes “DUCK” during life…  Mostly I have remembered to KEEP GOING!!!

I am not ready to let summer go – and will get back to the beach again – but these cooler temperatures surely make us long for the fall. Even now I am gearing IN – like cleaning the house with the coolness of the day – THINKING ABOUT but not yet cleaning the yard with the coolness too. (Really it is the mosquitos that are so annoying in this season.)

AND THEN in the Fall, there is the exciting build up of the new season(s) of Survivor – yeah CBS’s Survivor – my junk TV viewing is also life affirming – that is a game but the emotions are real – mostly – because in life we DON’T outwit outplay outlast – we  OUT-ADAPT – we adapt and keep going even if we change the speed. Actually, we look for God to morph the view of the scene from the front row to being on stage to being from above. Always look ABOVE to see how God sees. God sees the world – to LOVE it…

AND after this season 49 is season 50 of Survivor – I remember 25 years ago – the season ONE – yeah that was a wild ride. Yeah, Survivor – because we are all studying how to get through life. We are survivors – and yes we traipse through tough days – and yes we have to get through life arrays… ALWAYS…

ADAPT!!!

We are to look to the Lord for the different seasons of life – and honestly, to quote the Lord through Solomon’s processing – there are different seasons of life – and probably that is the next song to play on your vinyl 45, or 33 and a third, not the 78, or on an 8-track or in film, or on a cassette car or walkman or boombox or CD or DVD or ipod nano or to stream on your computer, laptop, phone, watch, bluetooth earbuds: “Turn Turn Turn” by the Byrds: https://youtu.be/W4ga_M5Zdn4?si=m7pDECS837rh31Bn

(Yes if you imagine how playing music back RECORDED has changed in the past 50 years, imagine how LIVE life has changes too.)

ADAPT – whatever season you are in, God is already there.

ADAPT to finding Him – Watch for God.

Amen

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NKJV Everything Has Its Time

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
A time to tear,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.