Fall

Here's to new seasons!
In some places in this country the leaves have begun changing, the weather cooling to a nice 60 degrees at it's hottest, and the world is feeling fresh again. Even here in the High Desert we've been blessed to see actual clouds the last week. I almost forgot what they looked like. It's been sunshine and scorching temperatures for over three months...
In other news, new season of your favorite television shows are beginning to air, last years loading up on Netflix or Amazon and school is back in session! Yay books! The school supplies are heavily advertised still at this point, even those most schools started over a month ago- but the buses are something I dread. Needing to leave a whole ten minutes earlier for work... for once I look forward to the time change. The cooler weather isn't so bad either. Cooled to a whopping 78 yesterday. Sarcasm at it's strongest.
But it all seriousness the change of the weather and our new seasons of school and work and time-changes is such a wonderful reminder. Maybe for you summer was plain awful. I know mine wasn't the greatest. Perhaps you lost a loved one, broke out of a long term relationship you thought was 'the one', lost your job, had to move away, the list goes on of the many things you may have experienced this summer. The heat, the sun rising before you wake up, the sun setting later- perhaps these won't be the greatest reminders of what went on in your summer. It is such a blessing that season change and with it, new life. The sun will rise later, and set earlier, the weather is cooler, different things our society will be going on that have FALL written all over them. These things help us get our mind off of the past and onto the future! It's so exciting to see what God is going to do this next season. Perhaps it won't be anything I imagine, which is quite a lot when it comes to my imagination. And that is okay. Our expectations shouldn't be on what we will accoplish for ourselves, but what the Lord will allow us to accomplish for Him.
"Oh the joy of the Lord, He will be my strength, when the preasure is on, He's making Diamonds. He is refining in His timing, He's making diamonds out of us!" -Hawk Nelson
When that pressure comes upon us in this new season, know that the Lord is shaping you into something beautiful!! Accept the instruction and walk in obedience. The Lord has a plan for us all in this new season.