Greetings Dear Reader,
I want you to try something.
Make a single leaf stay on the tree.
Keep one from turning brown. Use
all your power and will to make it so.
Autumn is an annual lesson in the lack of control we have over
things.
The seasons remind us that we are part of a cycle not in
control of one. The years flow through
the glass and time reveals the seasons as they unfold with us in them. One can chase a season or two if one
wishes. I have a friend who lives in
constant Spring and Summer by changing which side of the equator he lives on every
six months.
We can chase the seasons but we cannot change the fate of a
single leaf. They, like us, flow through
time in a cyclical spiral that will spin down to the time when there is no more
time. Their lesson is to remind us that
this is all out of our control. All that
we can do is live in the cycles with love for the maker of those cycles and for
each other.
You will hear people complain in some way about every
season. There seems to be more of it
when the air is cold and the sunshine elusive.
We enjoy the blazing colours but reject the winter they herald. We can only control our response to the Creator. We can only follow and see the splendor when
it is there.
I must not think that I am in control of anything. I must remember that God never gets the
weather wrong. Autumn is a gift to
remind me of things that end and how to navigate them. Let us walk through the crisp leaves together
Dear Reader, following the one who made the seasons and asked us to learn of
him through them.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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