Fall has always been a time of renewal for me. A time for a fresh start. Perhaps after years of starting school in September it seems like a natural new start time. We even got married in the fall. Two of my babies were born in the fall. We bought this house in the fall. I have started new jobs in the fall.
The season of change where nature prepares itself for the oncoming winter shouldn’t be associated with newness. And yet it is. The leaves aren’t turning yet and the weather is still pleasantly warm. My garden is still growing. Summer is lingering on. But, there is a change to the way the air smells (minus the smoke – cough cough). The evenings are getting shorter. Before long the harvest will be in and the leaves will be crunching under our feet.
For the first time since Wes’ stroke I feel as though we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. It has been an extremely difficult time wandering lost in the wilderness. I hope now that this fall ushers in a time of renewal and rebuilding.
In the same way as a renovated kitchen has to follow the demolition of the old one, so do we have to undergo times of great trial and sorrow in order to be built up stronger.
I pray that fall will be a time of refocusing and renewal in your heart and life.
Psalm 51: 10 – 12 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Roberta Writes 