I LOVE FALL!

10-2-10
Today I took a walk in our neighborhood and thought about how much I love FALL...I saw kids playing outside in Halloween costumes, couples working in their yards together, dogs enjoying walks with their owners. It made me miss my little boys, our dog, my family home and our yard full of trees and fallen leaves, and of course the family we used to be. But maybe GOD created seasons to help us adapt to change. Change is part of life, children grow, relationships end, but a a season always brings us something new.

GRACE is defined in Scripture as something that teaches us how to live! I thought about that as I shared an evening with a new group of parents hosting a pre-dance picture session and driving their freshmen to the Homecoming dance. The change of season is like a stage of life...one son completed high school, now the next son begins and with that comes newness once again.

I may have physically lost a house and yard and even piles of leaves, but I still have my family, just a changed form of it. I can always have GRATITUDE for that and the time with other parents wanting to do the same as me...teach our children GRACE or how to live!


To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
  A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones,
and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
  A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8