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It’s official.
After a hot summer with lots of trips for ice-cream and ample lake time, the season of fall has arrived. It’s getting closer to sweater weather, pumpkin patch time and soup. Change is in the air. I can smell it. Fire pits mingle with the crisp evening air that blows in through my open window. Even the colors are changing with the arrival of fall. A tree in our yard is blazing orange and another has already started to drop her leaves.
It has made me wonder how a tree knows when it is time to change her color; when it’s time to drop her leaves? Yes, I know the scientific explanation. The change in the length of daylight and changes in temperature cause the leaves to stop their food-making process. The chlorophyll breaks down and the leaves change color and eventually fall to the ground. The tree knows it is time to change because it stops the food-making process. It stops the food making process because the light from the sun orbiting around the Earth tells it to. It’s the light that tells the tree to change her color and drop her leaves.
What is the light telling me to do? In this season of my life, what is changing? What do I need to let go of or leave? What things do I need to stop so that transformation can begin in me? I wonder all these things as I look at the colors change the carpet of my grass. Is God using the fall to usher in a new season of life?
The author of Ecclesiastes says that “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” There are seasons of life that call for change and transformation. Seasons for stopping and letting go of what we think we know so that God can prepare us for the next season. As the rhythm of creation gives way to harvested fields and frosted meadows, may you surrender your timing to the one who said, “I am the light of the world.” May God’s light lead you in this season to delight in his will and his way.
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heaven.”
Ecc. 3:1
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