Does it not feel like fall is in the air? Oh my goodness, I love it, love it, love it! A dear friend sent me this beautiful poem called “September.” I love September because I’m a September baby, and we have more birthdays in September than any other month in the year. “September” goes something like this:
September
The breezes taste of apple peel
The air is full of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
burning brush,
new books, erasers,
chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
well-honeyed hum,
and Mother cuts
chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
with suds, the days
are polished with
a morning haze.
-John Updike
Isn’t that beautiful? It just makes us think about all the seasons the Lord gives us. That’s one of the many cool things about being in Ohio, we have all the seasons. To think about pulling out the pumpkins and getting the cider on the stove and the trees changing- it’s just a wonderful time to know that God is such an amazing artist, isn’t He? All the beautiful things He creates for us just because He loves us so much.
Here are a few Scriptures to meditate on as you enjoy the fall season:
A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3.1-14 NIV
He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.
Acts 14.17 NIV
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1.20 NIV
