Change Comes with the Season

Ruxton Creek, Manitou Springs, Colorado

In the Fall we move from life to death; in the Spring from death to life, and each of these transitory seasons produces a certain amount of anticipation.

Spring brings with it the anticipation of long summer evenings, campfires and life. Fall brings with it the anticipation of darkness, freezing temperatures and death.

Whether the season is transitioning from summer to winter or winter to summer, there is the gift of beauty in the transition. The varied colors of Fall leaves and the diverse hues of Spring flowers remind us that in the difficulty of transition God is at work painting the canvas of our lives.

"Why are you discouraged, my soul?  Why are you so restless?  Put your hope in God, because I will still praise him.  He is my savior and my God."  Psalm 42:5 God's Word to the Nations

Some of you reading this devotion are in a season of transition; transition from joy to sorrow or sorrow to joy; from contentment to fear or fear to contentment; from life to death or death to life.  

May you experience in your transition the grace of the Artist who paints your life's canvas.

By the way, there are more colors on God's palette than you will ever know.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2014 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.