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A COLOR-FULL SEASON TO LET GO

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This time of year every window I look out displays a magnificent masterpiece of indescribable beauty as the summer lets go into fall. There’s just something magical about the lush green leaves of summer turning into warm golds, robust yellows, vivid oranges and deep reds. Just a simple peek out of my windows brings joy to my soul as leaves celebrate their colorful descent, joyfully dancing in the wind.

Though it be the most colorful time of year here in New Hampshire, us Granite Stater’s know the cold and snowy weather will soon it be upon us for we all know that Autumn shall quickly pass. It always does. Nothing stays the same here, not a season and not even a day.

For our Heavenly Father told us in Ecclesiastes,

There is a time to be born and a time to die;

A time to plant and a time to pluck what has been 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;

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to gain and a time to lose;

A time to keep and a time to throw away;

A time to tear and a time to sow;

A time to keep silence and a time to speak;

A time to love and a time to hate;

A time of war an a time of peace.

As we can see the beautiful seasons of the earth and the different seasons of our lives possess no secrets to The Lord Jesus Christ because He created each season and sustains each one. He arranges when things will happen and when they will not and no moment exists where He is not in charge. Moment to moment and day by day, His order and supremacy shines down upon all of the earth and every living thing. The process of it all, the procedure, the duration and every detail is perfectly executed at “His” perfectly given time. Isn’t it so nice to know that He’s a mighty God with a purpose and a meaning for every detail that goes on for you and for me and the entire world?

Perhaps He gives us the changing seasons to let us know that He’s in got this life of ours and we need not worry. Maybe like the leaves He wants us to let go of things and trust the process for He’s promised to make everything beautiful in it’s time. And if we find ourselves in a strange and sorrowful season as we all will at different times, He wants each of us to remember that, this to shall pass. And to remind us that there is beauty in the letting go, we need only look outside.

TRUE LOVE

Posted on by pennyjoliver

 

I love Aruba! I also love piping hot coffee, matcha tea, gray sweatshirts, and crisp clean cotton sheets. I love leather and denim coats. I love day-old haircuts, striking asanas and posing upward toward Heaven. I like deep conversations at my dining room table. I love to belt out songs in church, especially ones that have the word Halleluyah in them. But out of all of these things I love, they give me something back for loving them. Sadly, it boils down to this: everything in this world that I love and if it loves me, loves me, only conditionally.

Then, like the Grinch, she thought of something she hadn’t before! What if true love, she thought, didn’t come from a store? What if true love, perhaps, is a little bit more!”

Then she goes and gets all spiritual.

Take Roman’s 5:8. God says.”But God commanded His love toward us, in that while we were sinner’s Christ died for us.”

God doesn’t say, “As soon as you clean up your act, I’ll love you.” Nor does He say “I’ll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love me.” In Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. Now that’s true love!

It’s so nice to find that true love can’t be bought from a store.

That is because, true love is a whole lot more!

Thanks for reading!

Hoping your day is filled with love!!