October Newsletter
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm (Newsletter)
I love the changing of the seasons! I never realized how much I enjoyed these transitions until I moved to Bakersfield, California back in 1991 and was confronted with perpetual summer. Oh, come December the liquid amber trees would turn red, and in January the Tule fog would roll in – for awhile – and then the spring wildflowers would come for what seemed like a day … and it would be SUMMER AGAIN. One autumn I was so desperate for any sign of fall that my mother shipped me a box of leaves she had raked up from the lawn (not much for postage). I opened the box, took it outside, and the children from the preschool and I took turns throwing the leaves in the air – they had never seen leaves like this before! In time I learned to find the rhythm of changes in California – the seasons were there, (and they lasted longer than a day) but they were subtle and different from the seasons I knew in my childhood. Fortunately for me I was living in farming community, and the local farmers helped me to find the unique rhythms of that community, and to appreciate the beauty of God’s creation in a new and wonderful way. Read the rest of this entry »