Well, it's September! My absolute favorite time of the year!! I can't decide if it's the cooler weather, the sights and smells of harvest time, or the beautiful colors of fall that I love most.
I love this time of year!!! I love wearing warm sweaters, and cute boots and watching the tractors and combines in the fields.
I love having a fire in our fire pit on a cool evening I love the smell of change in the air!
I love trying to guess when the first snow will fall, and how long, our all too short fall, will last.
I love making pumpkin rolls and pumpkin cookies. I love all things pumpkin!!!! I know for some it is a dreaded time of year. I know many who dread the approach of winter, the long cold nights, the blowing cold wind, the snow. The very short days, with not much sunshine.
But I love all seasons. I love the change and the variety of all things. For everything there is a season!
If there is nothing I have learned in my 3 decades it is that there is a time and purpose for everything. And we can spend all our timed energy complaining about it and dreading it and hoping it goes away.... Or we can just accept what is, and find the good, and beauty in all things and situations. I will be the first to admit that I am not in any way, shape or form, the best at finding the good and beauty in all things. I catch myself , far more often than I like , complaining. But I constantly remind myself, there is a time and season for all things, there is reason and purpose in all situations, either good, or bad. There is a lesson to be learned in all things. But if we spend so much time dwelling on the things we dislike, we will never find the time or opportunity to learn , and grow, and find the purpose and meaning in our lives. I am a firm believer in God! I am a firm believer in life. I believe their is a plan for me. I believe that every heartache, and pain, and trial I have endured, has shaped me, and molded me, and prepared me for the next go round. Have I always felt that way about my heartaches? No. I have spent many long tearful nights wishing and hoping and praying that I would not have to endure this trial. I have spent too many days being angry, and asking ,"why me?" I have spent many days, even weeks ,and months dwelling on my lack, instead of my bounty. And I would be lying if I said I don't have any more " whoa is me" moments. But they get fewer and farther between each day.. I have been able to stop, and turn around, and look back at my life, and my tough times, and my trials, and realize that those trials built me, they shaped me, they have helped me see beyond me, and see the need in others, and myself. If I have learned nothing else I have learned this. My Heavenly Father loves me! And he is aware of me, as an individual. He has not forgotten or forsaken me! We each endure, every day, some hardship, or struggle. To each his own. But the awesome amazing thing is, that as children of God, sometimes we are given our struggles so we can help others through their trials. I have had the privilege to be associated with many amazing women who have lifted me, and strengthened me, through their examples of how they endured their own trials, and I hope and pray that by some small measure, I have been able to touch someone else's life for the better.
I love this time of year!! But then again, I have my reasons for loving every time of year!
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