Germination

Autumn has always been my favorite season. I love the colors and the cool winds, the leaves and pumpkins, football and Thanksgiving. Fall always feels like a transition like something big is around the corner; excited whispers of Christmas and stores beginning to fill their aisles with red and green. Fall clothes are the best too, wonderful warm colors and layering make everything fun!!!! It makes me want to curl up with a Pumpkin Pie Latte and watch Little Women.

I enjoy soaking up every ounce of this Season and find myself wishing it would never leave. I was talking with Amber the other day and she was telling me about her wonderful trip to Boston with her girls from the Dallas area. There is a picture of her soaking up fall, fun and friends on the freedom trail in Boston.

She was telling me how in Texas, West Texas to be more specific we only get a tiny taste of fall and our seasons seem to skip from summer straight to winter. She explained this with the trees and how here they turn from green to brown but in Boston they turn brilliant beautiful colors.

She told me she was going to write about how it affected her on her Blog “Waiting on Purpose.” So I won’t talk about how her beautiful analogy spoke to her. But I will tell you it got me thinking.

I had written a blog about a month ago “Promise through Powerful Prayer.” If you didn’t read it, it was about how God reassured that all the things I desire and have a passion for will come in their own time. Specifically I was talking about my love for other nations in physical need as well as need for a Savior. God more recently showed me an amazing organization called The World Race that goes all over the world fighting social injustice, providing help for the needy, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, loving the widow and the orphan, and all for the name of the Lord. I want to go so bad!!!!! I wish I was at a level of financial freedom to drop everything and serve the Lord through this organization in everything they do. But it is not yet my time.

So here I sit in my favorite season too excited for the big things just around the corner to enjoy the beauty of Autumn. God I pray that you help me to enjoy this season; for without Autumn the seeds of the crops cannot fall to the ground, lay dormant through the winter, to flourish and germinate in the spring ready for the bountiful Harvest you would have for their life.

Psalm 1:3-4
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,

but are like chaff that the wind drives away.