Letting the season take the time it demands can sometimes be grueling and doesn’t immediately translate into rejuvenation. Sometimes what is required of us is to pass through a season of reckoning, including reckoning with our own (collective) sins and failures. To give ourselves over to such a season—to focus on what it demands—means not to rush to resolve it or escape but to endure, undergo, let go of what needs to be taken from us.
