THE BEAUTY OF A SEASON

The other day, I wrote about my years in the Divanatun—the chancellery of the Holy See—as God’s training ground. There I learned many lessons, but one of the greatest was this: a single word carries power. One word can shape the meaning of a sentence. One word can shift the way we understand an entire thought.

One word I intentionally use in my writing and sermons is ‘season.’ Because life is not a constant state—it moves, it shifts, it grows. Life is made up of seasons: seasons of joy and seasons of pain; seasons of waiting and seasons of breakthrough. And when you begin to look at your life through this lens, everything starts to look different.

The Holy Scriptures remind us: “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). That means nothing in this life—no trouble, no hardship, no blessing, no success—is forever. Life changes. Circumstances shift. What seems permanent today will not be permanent tomorrow.

If you are walking through a season of pain, take comfort: it will not last forever. If you are enjoying a season of blessing, receive it with gratitude: it too will pass. What remains eternal is the purpose of God, who works through each season to shape us into His likeness.

Too often, we want to rush through our seasons. We want to skip winter and move straight to spring. But if we do that, we miss the lessons that winter brings. Every season has something to teach us.

If you are in a season of waiting, lean into it. Ask: Lord, what are you forming in me here? If you are in a season of blessing, don’t just enjoy it—use it to bless others. If you are in a season of pain, let it deepen your roots in God’s love, where you will find strength to endure.

Friends, do not mistake it for the end of your story. God is writing a larger story, and what you are living through right now is just a chapter, not the conclusion.

So whether you are standing in the springtime of joy, or enduring the cold winter of hardship, remember this: the seasons will change, but God’s faithfulness never will, “He makes everything beautiful in its time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

Bishop Mesrop Parsamyan
September 20, 2025