Fall Comfort

There’s a certain autumn comfort around crops being harvested…

…Trees turning colors, produce gathered and canned up or frozen… in anticipation of winter’s onslaught when the ground is frozen and hard.

Knowing we will be taken care of since we took care to plan ahead for our families and loved ones… and because crops have been abundant we could provide for others needs.

Growing up, one of my favorite songs to sing was, “Come Ye Thankful People Come”….raise the song of harvest home, all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin, God our maker doth provide, for our wants to be supplied……… Singing the song and helping mom in the kitchen really brought peace and comfort to my soul.

God will provide.

He will provide for you.

Provide for Your Future

The next generation…your kids, your grandkids are your/our future!

Driving home this week I passed many red, yellow and orange maple trees…huge specimens planted decades ago…now towering in beauty!

The planters of these trees are all long gone and cannot enjoy their finale, but we can, because they cared to look ahead.

Past generations of land owners often planted trees for future generations’ benefit, knowing they wouldn’t be ready in their lifetime.

How comforting to realize you had been thought of by previous people and generations who planned and did things not for themselves, but for the good of those to come after them.

I want to be part of the forward thinking generation able to lay up things, ideas, processes, implementations, habits, plans, that will make life better for my successors.

I want to pass that forward to make their lives less complex and easier to enjoy and live while they raise the next members of humanity.

Will you plan with me?

Life’s Words

I want my life’s words…

… to encourage people to what they can become

…to be a source of empowerment for them to see change

…to offer hope in their life for better

…to help them see their God-given worth

I don’t want my life’s words taking on a condemnatory role offering shame, pain or guilt for all the should’ve, could’ve or didn’t dos.

I will watch my words carefully so my life only speaks life to others.