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Change is in the Air By Michelle Wallace T 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. 14 DALLAS COUNTY Living Well Magazine | MAY/JUNE 2016