REFLECTION - When Comfort Holds Us Back: Check your season

There's a season that feels safe, like a warm blanket on a cold night. It's where everything is familiar, risks are minimal, and where the call to step out feels just a little too loud for our quiet corner. It's not laziness. It's not rebellion.

It's Winter.

Winter is a beautiful, God-given season. It's a time for rest, reflection, and renewal. Trees look

barren, but their roots are deepening. Life appears still, but important things are happening beneath the surface.

We all need Winter seasons.

They teach us to pause, to wait on the Lord, and to listen in the silence.

But what happens when we choose to stay in Winter, not because God has called us to, but because it's easier than stepping into the unknown?

Some of us feel the nudge—a stirring—a quiet call to come out from under the blanket and take our place—maybe in leadership, maybe in ministry, maybe simply in obedience to that next step. But instead, we stay—not because we don't hear, but because we're afraid.

Comfort feels like control because Winter has become more than a season — a place of hibernation. There's nothing wrong with blankets, stillness, or quiet moments. But if God calls us into Spring—into growth, action, and leading others—then staying in Winter becomes disobedience masked as comfort.

God has not planned your whole life to be underground because you must bloom, not shrivel in His purpose.

Isaiah 43:19 says, See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it;

God often calls us into unfamiliar places, not to harm us, but to help us grow. And leadership —authentic, servant-hearted leadership isn't about being the loudest or the most confident; it's about being the most genuine and humble. It's about saying yes when God says, 'Come forth'.

So, if you find yourself curled up in a spiritual Winter when you know it's time to move, let this be your gentle reminder: The blanket may be warm, but a new life is waiting outside.

Spring is calling. And so is He.

Written by Angela Doreen- 15, 5, 2025

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