Skip to main content

Beauty in Changing




This time of year is beautiful in the Midwest. The weather is cooling, drawing us to our hoodies, cozy sweaters and long forgotten jeans. Yards are decorated with cornstalks, pumpkins and fancy scarecrows. On trash days, curbs are lined with bags and bags of dead leaves and other yard waste as home owners ready their home for the coming cold months. And then there are the trees.

I've taken a walk the last few nights with Lucas around our neighborhood and enjoyed the changing foliage much more than my twelve year old nephew. I'm a picture person. He's a get it done kind of kid. I stop a LOT to admire scenery. His mind has already completed the walk and is on to his next video game. He is often a block ahead of me before he realizes I stopped to admire a pinecone on the ground or a beautiful leaf on the road.

I saw this quote and it resonated with me again: 

 

Isn't that great? Humans resist change. We have readily displayed that ever since Covid-19 disrupted our lives and thrown us all into a masked society who literally knows nothing of what lies around the corner for them. We've all had to change. And most of us have complained about it. A lot.

So as I've enjoyed seeing the beauty of the changing leaves, it's prompted me to again remember the beauty in dying...even the beauty in dead things. This leaf is beautiful. It's also dead now. It's no longer clinging to its source of life. Kind of a morbid thought, huh?


But this leaf wasn't created to last forever. It's Creator (coincidentally, He's YOUR Creator, too!) created it with a purpose, with a season to provide the benefits of oxygen, shade and beauty for only a time, then He knew it was to turn this vibrant shade of burgundy before being released of its duty and fluttering to the ground. Its life is complete. (I chose to give it a bit longer shelf life, if you will, but adding it to my inside decor for a few weeks.)

This post wasn't meant to herald dying as a noble cause to aspire to though that last paragraph speaks to it. I hope that you will be able to grasp that the world might continue to change at a rapid pace, but our Creator doesn't change. I desire for you to know His unchanging love in a world that tends to love you only if you believe exactly as they do. And, I pray you will know the changes in your life can produce beauty. Attach yourself to the Source of Life and see what happens!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What are you dreaming about?  Wishing for?  Waiting for? Just those questions alone can bring more to mind than your heart was ready to process.  I know it's true for me.  I haven't blogged for three years.  Want to know what one of my dreams is?  Writing!  Ironic, huh? In this past month I've switched some things up with positive results.  I used to wait to spend time with God at the very end of my day and that came with varying results.  Either I'd be so exhausted that I'd only muster enough to open up the Bible app on my phone and settle for just a nugget of God's truths that day.  Sometimes I'd get my Bible opened then be sidetracked by a nephew getting ready for bed or a whiny dog.  Sometimes, I'd forget altogether.  None of this made for a strong me. When the kids started back to school this year, I decided to make a change for myself. Instead of getting up at the same time as always, I set my alarm for 5:00 a.m. al...
Post a Comment
Read more

Trust your Author

As a child, I loved reading.  Little House on the Prairie and the Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke were my favorites.  I also loved Beverly Cleary books as a younger girl and the Sweet Valley High books in middle school. In high school, I didn't find a lot of time to read and didn't pick up many book recreationally until my twenties.  I would always look for Christian fiction, but quickly grew tired of the same old story.  Woman had a job, but is unfulfilled.  She meets a man, often one that is not interested in her or that she doesn't like.  Fast-forward after several chance encounters and several missteps and VOILA!, they fall in love.  Bleck.  That works for a Hallmark movie for me that I'm only required to invest less than 2 hours in.  But not for a book. Hours of time go into reading a book.  Sometimes just finding a book that looks interesting takes a lot of time.  That is, until I found the author Karen Kingsbury....
Post a Comment
Read more