Can you believe that it's September 16 already? In a week it will be Fall.
I'm loving this cooler weather -- please let it stay. I love autumn. It's my favorite time of year. The crisp, fresh air with cooler temperatures is infigorating to me. I'm not sure why I like the fall so much except that there is a rhythm to it that is familiar and comforting. Fall is a coming back to the rhythm of life, but it's more. Each fall as a new year of school or college would begin I was filled with a sense of expectation and possibility. New classes, new school books, new book covers, new friend s all stirred an awakening of expectation. It was almost as if I was standing tall on tippy toe expecting something exciting to happen in the new year. The cooler temperatures were like a slap in the face to wake me up to the possibilites in life.
What are you expecting? New growth in your life, a new level of spiritual or emotional maturity, a new challenge? What awaits you? Death of something old and unproductive in your life as winter comes? A sloughing off of old negative attitudes or patterns? I find the fall season as a good season to store "acorns" of truth in my heart upon which to reflect and build. As the leaves fall from the trees it reminds me to let go of the things in my life that have kept me from moving forward and growing to make room for something new. Whatever, there is a cycle to life and I enjoy the changing of seasons and rhythms. I like new beginnings.
Everyday is a new beginning. What is ready to be pushed out and sloughed off? What is stirring inside to begin? What is patiently waiting inside ready to make its appearancce. It's time -- the season and color of change. Embrace it.
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I adore Autumn. Even named my daughter that! Some see it as a time of dying, but it is alway one of awakening. Many things are planted and spring forth in the fall. It has all the vibrancy of spring as well with all the tree foliage. God is one of great variety.
Tammy D
I think the harvesting of our work is what I like about the fall. We've worked hard all year and get to see the result of our labor in the fall as it is harvested. I love the rich combinations of colors like the colors of our life.
As I read this, what captures me is a sense of transition. It's time to let some things go and prepare for new growth, new life. Personally, I have many areas of my life that I need to let "fall away," pun intended, so that I can focus on the life waiting for me. Of course, that is easier said than done, but what a wonderful image to think of past hurts falling away, wrong views of God falling away, shame falling away, and anger falling away to reveal a new, beautiful me in the spring!
Michelle, thank you for your sharing so beautifully. Wouldn't it be great if it were that easy -- just let go and let it fall away?
But,it really is. New growth has a way of pushing the old away. In the spring any old leaves that have hung on will be pushed off by the new leaves. So spiritually, when we're ready to reach out to receive what is rightfully ours as new creations or maturing Christians its much easier to let go of the old.
See my latest post on my uniquelyhis.net site.
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