FALL....it is now my favorite season. It never used to be when I lived up north. I didn't want summer to end and I was always sad when I could smell and feel the season change. I didn't want the long hot carefree summer days to go away. But now that I am in Florida, I yearn for those days of a briskness (is that a word?) in the air and beautiful colorful leaves all over the trees and going for walks bundled in a jacket with the sound of leaves crunching under my feet. And seeing pumpkins and mums decorating porches. Not to mention going apple picking and baking an apple pie. I remember the route to my grammar school. It was a street lined with maple trees for blocks. And I can still picture how beautiful it was in fall. The orange, yellow and red colors went on for blocks. That image is forever etched in my mind. So, for now, I decorate my little Florida home with fall decor and it's my little autumn paradise. I just pray my children will experience it someday. I think that God gives us little glimpses of how beautiful heaven is when he blesses us with his art work of colorful leaves. I also seemed to dwell on the verse from Ecclesiastes 3:2 during each season that we cross and fall is... 'a time to pluck that which is planted'. It just reminds me to be a worker and harvest the Lords crop which means I should be sharing the gospel with every chance I get. I need to harvest the crops. I also feel I need to examine who I associate with. Are they godly people? Do they edify or tear down? Are they christian on the outside but someone else on the inside? So I need to weed them out and pluck them then surround myself with righteous people. I thank the Lord for those godly people that are in my life. I'm so glad I can learn from them and I love them. Thank you Lord for this change of season, it's a beautful one.
