I love the Fall – but I also love the summer and the spring and every time a season changes, honestly. The change from winter to spring speaks such life and joy in my heart because it reminds me of the fresh and the new. Things start becoming green again and the sun shines longer and my heart rejoices. The changing from summer to Fall though is different and sometimes hard. It’s the dying away of the old. The green begins to turn to beautiful colors of red and orange and yellow. But sadly, it then turns brown. The old dies… So while I love the cooler weather, the pumpkins and the apples, and all things fall – it’s a different kind of love. It’s a knowing that things are dying and that’s okay, it’s their season. The author of Ecclesiastes 3 says it best.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
So, as we head into the new season of Fall, what needs to die or fall away this season in your life so that Jesus can begin to grow a new thing in your heart and life? Just like a farmer has seasons of planting and harvest. He (or she) also has seasons where the things just need to be torn up or simply die – in order for new life to grow. And it’s hard and beautiful and eventually life-giving.
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