Fall is my favorite time of year. It is just so beautiful outside, there is something about the chill in the air and everything that comes with fall.... boots on our feet, scarfs around our necks, pumpkin flavored food and drinks that are so delicious we crave them all year, crunching leaves under our feet as we walk and so many other wonderful things.
Over the past few weeks when I am driving around I get caught up in looking at the fall colors, sometimes it takes my breath away in the amazement of the beauty surrounding us. I think about the detail that went into creating this earth, I mean God could have just had the leaves fall off the trees, get raked up, and let the winter begin. But instead He made art work out of things that are only going to last a few weeks before falling to the ground and not be thought of again until the Spring when the trees bloom again. If God puts that much detail into every single leaf can you imagine the detail He puts in our lives? It is hard to think about how incredibly marvelous that is, what a hope that should give us for our life! God created us with detail and beauty in mind!
We may be in a season where we feel that life is hard, that we may feel that the storms are coming, that we don’t know if we are going to make it through gray season, or even feel a season of darkness and hopelessness that we can’t see the light at all. But we have to trust and have faith that God is working, that He is with us, He will get us through this storm. When we look back on today many years from now we will be able to see the beauty and the purpose of this time that may seem right now like we may never get out of it. It is always amazing how time can make things seem better and allow us to see a different perspective. My challenge is that while we are in this season, let us open our eyes to see the beauty around us, to see the small things to remember that God has us in His loving arms and He will pull us through this season. Let us hold tight and spend time with God so that we can see the colors around us, even if we can only see one yellowish-reddish-orange colored leaf at a time, let us hold onto that leaf and know that there is a big picture, an ultimate plan, that God is going to create beautiful things out of this season, past seasons, and seasons to come. With a God that puts so much detail into each leaf on a tree, there is no way he doesn’t have a beautiful detailed masterpiece for our lives, for each one of us.
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11
As the leaves are falling and the beauty around us will soon turn into a different beauty of snow and winter, let us take in each moment and remember it, as it will be a small part of the masterpiece of our life.
