autumn – We Are the Lucky Ones

It sure feels like autumn today. Some people enjoy this season which provides an array of colors, smells of cocoa and pumpkin spice. Some, on the other hand, dread it. For at times, the sun is dwindling and they know what the next season will be.

For me, I enjoy autumn, even though I prefer summer with the warm temperatures and the feeling of summer break. Always wanting to “go somewhere” and do “summery things”. Even though summer is actually my favorite, I enjoy all the seasons. In Michigan, the weather can change as quickly as you can proclaim it.

All the seasons have an element for us to enjoy. Well, you know all the benefits of summer. It seems summer is made for play. Then comes fall, with cooler temps and arrays of vibrant color and harvesting of crops. Winter, sparkling like diamonds along a billowy cloud…Snow is beautiful to behold, yet it brings with it, cold temps and more work, and makes us thankful when we have a home and heat to keep out the blustery winds. Spring, seems to be forever coming, but with it brings new life, new hope.

I liken the seasons to life. We have seasons where everything is sunny and fun, ones where we dread the inevitable. There are seasons of growth and seasons of death. Seasons where it’s all you can do to just get by. I like to live in the season of “spring” which always promises hope. We don’t know when we will be brought back to dust, so I pray for whatever season you are in, that you will enjoy each moment.

Lately, I have been enjoying the season of harvest as God has provided more bounty than I could imagine. At this time, I have been doing a lot of canning. Here are a few of the many jars that I have canned:Potatoes, spaghetti sauce, jalepenos, beets, green beans, applesauce, tomato soup, squash. It brings me much joy to use apples from the last tree my Dad planted. I have been enjoying the produce which brings to remembrance the season when my Dad was on this earth. He loved the earth and farming and growing. He loved me.