Endless Days...

by: Jonathan Brazell

It’s hard to explain the world of sunrises and sunsets through our eyes.  It’s something that is experienced more than it can be detailed out in conversation.  Mornings are savored in the blind, after setting decoys, over steaming coffee. We strain and listen to the dark ghosts in the pre-dawn light whistle by, in anticipation that can’t be weighed on any scale.  The afternoons are not to be slighted though; the sun slipping away with neon skies. The feed ducks pouring in after shooting light – vivid, vocal, and almost magical leaving us to wish away the hours to the next hunt.

Days begin to blur together; from gas station stops to fighting ice and the freeze.  Before you know it, you’ve found yourself on the last adventure of the season. It doesn’t seem real.  All of the hours, all of the preparation, all of the laughs, and all of the moments teeter on the brink of the clock counting down.  Season has come, and it has now gone. I read a lot of posts, and I sympathize with so many in soft denial that this season we love is now over.  It’s almost an eerie feeling, like being in an old empty duck blind. You can see the memories, feel them, but cannot return to them until the fall.  We all seek that fulfilling joy in the field, but are challenged when season is gone.

“We’ve been given sixty days – to help point us to endless days.”

There are many things in the field and life that transition in seasons.  It is so by the design of the Creator – “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…” (Proverbs 3:1) This is fitting too, that we can only find temporary satisfaction in temporal things.  These temporary things are not a waste though. Stewarding creation, in these seasons, is a mandate that was put in place by God – that we would experience the Creator’s glory in his creation. The temporal pointing us to the eternal.

There is a great truth here.  It is a truth that overwhelms the emptiness with fullness in joy and hope.  The reason that we are left longing for more is that there is something so much more to be anticipated – eternity in heaven with Christ.  It is a joy that will be unending to which there is no season.God has granted us the seasons; the waterfowler – this harvest time.  He has done so, that we would not only find joy in his creation, but more-so that we would long for the eternal joy in the Creator.  We’ve been given sixty days – to help point us to endless days.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.  Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart…” (Proverbs 3:11)  

- Jonathan Brazell