Reflections on Fall
My childhood memories of fall are filled with pleasant thoughts…unpacking warmer clothes, fall revival at church, youth group hay rides, hot cocoa on crisp fall nights, harvest moons, campfires. I love fall. Fall is letting go, and accepting the impermanence of things. The autumn of life is a strange mixture of nostalgia, blessings, and potential. It yields the harvest of seeds we’ve sown throughout life and braces us for colder days to come. When life’s autumn arrives, we look back and better understand the way God led us; but we still have work to do—the best and fullest. It’s a good transition time. “Autumn” only occurs once in the Bible . In Jude 1:12 , false teachers are compared to “autumn trees without fruit,” implying that autumn should be a fruitful season, the most abundant of the year. How can we take advantage of the “autumn of life”? We can use this to time to reflect on not so much what God has done for us but on what we have done for G...