A Season For Everything

Photo by Kailey Kaska~use with permission~Kim Bankley-Olson

Fall break from school has ended, but the weather cooperated. We finished sorely-needed weeding on those unseasonably warm days filled with autumn sights and smells. Neighborhood children played in clothes that will soon be packed away till spring.

I love autumn. The beautiful colors really signify death, leading into months of cold and desolation. Yet with each fall, then winter, comes the promise of spring and summer. Predictable—marked on calendars. As surely as one season passes, another will takes its place. What a great God to plan four of them!

Seasons remind me of a God Who cares. Study the foliage—the wonder. Even in the temporary dying of leaves, He displays His artistry. And God’s palate of browns and grays also holds vibrant greens and rainbow colors He paints again come spring. So the cycle continues.

A time to be born, and a time to die. We just welcomed grandbaby #5, one amongst the 350,000* plus births celebrated in the world on his special day! This autumn famed Steve Jobs died, along with 150,000* plus unknown to us who also stepped into either eternal life or eternal death that same day.

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up. Farmers in our area finished harvesting crops, now stored in barns. They’ve rolled their hay, which is transported to many horse farms across Kentucky’s bluegrass region.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted … I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,10–11a (ESV)

Enjoy the Creator’s artistry!

*Various websites differ in their calculations. This is an estimate from several.