Upheld As the Season Changes Again

It’s been an interesting summer, that’s for sure! Been hopping all over the place, attending conferences, and visiting with kids and family. Phew! I finally got out in the jungle of my yard gardens and pulled weeds the other night. I cut off the sticks that are left of my hosta plants after the deer finished with them,  filled up my yard waste can and I still have a jungle out there. For goodness sake. If flowers and vegetables grew as fast and furious as weeds do, think of the beauty and goodies we would have! But no, you have to coax, feed, spray and do all that other stuff, whatever it is, to get flowers and veggies to grow. BUT if you STOMP on weeds and don’t give them water, they will thrive.  Grrr. And what’s with the roses fading away? Never had that before. I cut a bunch of limbs off. It definitely hurt me more than them, I can assure you!

Last night I took a walk up the hill. I used to walk nearly every night but in the last years, I’ve just been too busy. I forgot how lovely it was to walk when the sun is at the golden mellow stage of the day. Surely this is the time of day when God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden. They must have talked about the day’s events and looked with such pleasure at all God created.

And here we are in the Autumn of the year again. The colors are beginning to change. I love the changing face of the world in this season. And as I walked, I thought about how the seasons change every year.

Isn’t this how our lives move? In the Spring, everything looks so bright and new and full of promise. Then the Summer comes and it’s busy with so many activities and the gardens of our hearts sprout weeds as we may put the Bible aside, or forget to pray. Then comes Autumn and we once again try to pull out the weeds that now have roots that have spread. They are hard to pull out and take some work.

And Winter comes. It’s cold and dark and it all goes dormant. Do our hearts?

Perhaps Winter is a good time for reflection by the fire. The time to pull out God’s Word, the Bible, once again and ponder it’s truths; a time to reacquaint ourselves with prayer and a time of spending moments in the presence of God.

Spring will come again. And the cycle repeats. But maybe next time, the truths we ponder in the quiet of Winter may sprout in the Spring with hope and joy and purpose.

For now, Autumn is here in all it’s glorious brilliance. I’m going to enjoy it.

“To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven…” Ecclesiastes 3:1.