As I was walking to meet my sister, the skies were a gentle, mottled gray, the ground was wet with rain and the air was mild. Perfect walking weather. I unsuspectingly passed a tall evergreen tree just as gust of wind swept down and showered me with drops of remnant rain from the said tree, swirled yellow leaves around my head and carried the distant sound of honking geese to my ears. I honestly laughed out loud! Fall had arrived in one lovely, sensory filled gust of wind, and I was glad!
There are few events in life I do not look forward to, but the winter of old age is one I do not embrace with enthusiasm . The reality of achy bones, thinning hair, and moments of ebbing energy cause me to panic somewhat. I begin to consider dying my gray, joining a health club, buying one more youth preserving supplement in an effort to put off entering that winter too soon. However, I am so thankful for the reminders that the Autumn of my life is TRULY amazing! A camping trip with grandsons, Julian and Miles,
a birthday party for Jentry, and the gender revealing of a little girl due in mid winter (congrats Kristen, Josh and Jentry).
Add to this the glow of a daughter who is expecting a bundle of joy in February (congrats Jolene and Michael) and I am ecstatic!
How do I forget in my worry of winter, how lovely fall can be?
I squander the last few days of summer imagining a world of white cold (which I'll find just as beautiful as summer when I'm in sitting in my cozy chair with tea and a book) when I could be reveling in the warm slanted rays of waning sunshine. My Autumn years should be spent reveling in the harvest of my younger years instead of counting gray hairs and envisioning my old age (which I'll find lovely when I'm sitting in my chair with a book and a cup of tea).
Today I am finding myself joyful in the arrival of Autumn!
"For every thing there is a season..." Solomon the Preacher
