I have a certain fascination with Fall leaves. I love to see the brilliance of the reds, yellows, and oranges (especially the reds!). I don’t know why, unless it’s because we lived so many years overseas in a country without the four seasons. Or maybe it’s just the nostalgia of my childhood growing up at the foot of the Blue Mountains in Pennsylvania. Looking out the big picture window in our dining room at the mountain, I could see the trees go through the changes of each season.
On a recent walk with my friend, Linda, I stopped to pick up this leaf from the sidewalk. It intrigued me because of the parts that were still green. Maybe, like me, it wasn’t ready to give up summer quite yet. But seasons come and seasons go, and change happens. It happens in the lives of all of us, doesn’t it? It is certainly happening in the world around us!
Perhaps you are going through a season of change in your own life. Maybe it’s a work situation, where you are wondering how much longer your job will continue, or even if you want to continue in it. Maybe your children are growing up – Way … Too … Fast – and you feel like your role in their lives is losing influence. Maybe you feel uncertain if you’ve done enough to prepare them for the next stage. Maybe you’re tired. You’ve worked hard and there’s still so much that needs doing, but you have less energy than you used to have, and life has become more complicated.
Whatever it is, this is a SEASON … a season where change can still be beautiful!
Charles H. Spurgeon said, “The seasons change, and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad, and as full as ever.“
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)
In whatever season you find yourself, His love is deep and broad and full.
Blessings,
Ruth
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