Time To Reflect

So it's summertime.  For me, this is a time of questioning my purpose.  While the time away from school is nice, and frankly, necessary, I begin to question why I do what I do.  I feel like God is very quiet during the summer.  During the year following Mom's passing, I experienced a similar quiet from God.  As I journeyed through that year, I understood that He was giving me time to mourn and process the entire experience we'd had as a family with Mom's battle.  I needed the time "off", so to speak.  I needed to be able to just be for a while in the comfort of what I knew and allow my soul to heal and grow.  I think the summer might be the same type of time "off".  God allows my spirit a time to just be with nothing new so I can process the "old".  It's good for me to take this time to reflect.  I have to remember that this is what the summer is for, reflection of the last year.  The new will come soon enough, and I'm not quite sure what that new will be this year.  I'm apprehensive about that, so I guess I'll bask in the reflection of last year. :-)