We knew it was coming—fall. It showed up last Sunday. I’m tickled to say it couldn’t have come quick enough. But in the last few weeks of summer, nighttime temperatures were already down in the ’40s, and the days were seldom getting over 69 degrees.
Now? I’m aiming at Winter!
But this is a season of preparation—firewood for the fireplace, closing up the nooks and crannies where rain and cold may flow, preparing the dog’s house with fresh straw and a better plan to feed them—they’ve enjoyed my barn this week of painters, getting the tractors serviced, and hmm… time to plant some grass seed for the Spring, pick apples, and sharpen shears for trimming their branches after leaves drop.
I don’t rake leaves… Mow them in place. They become next season’s soil.
We keep the hummingbird feeder throughout winter and fall. Some like to hang out when their friends all head south.
Get a Burn Permit in October and enjoy a fire or two in the Winter and Spring.
Catch my drift?
We don’t slow down and ease into Winter just because it’s Fall.
Fall has a purpose. Navigating the future needs to begin with action now.
And just like that, I realize this is life. Seasons come and go, but there comes a time when that final season arrives. Winter. Hard freeze. Snow. Wind. Ice. Dormant. Will everything survive?
Generationally, we watch the elders and hope to be good witnesses to the younger ones. Have we planned well enough? How much of what we do now will make this next season a success?
There are four things which are little on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:
The ants are a people not strong,
Yet they prepare their food in the summer;
The rock badgers are a feeble folk,
Yet they make their homes in the crags;
The locusts have no king,
Yet they all advance in ranks;
The spider skillfully grasps with its hands,
And it is in kings’ palaces.
(Proverbs 30:24-28 NKJV)
As you approach your Fall, pause. Have you done enough for success? Or, are you scrambling even now as the Winter marches in order? In all you do, don’t forget to keep your eyes on the elders, nor fail to teach the younger ones. You are between the two. Do your part. Follow, prepare, and teach well.
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