Today is Labor Day. The unofficial end to summer. For me it’s been my favorite summer ever.
But it was August 16th when this is what I found.
The very first glimmer of Fall. An ending and a beginning.
I texted this picture to John, Katy, and Maggie and got two different responses:
One of the most stretching things for my spirit is letting go. I’m reflecting, in this season on change, and death, and release. And the hope of new seasons. Will you join me? Praying today, with hands open, palms down, relinquishing the dead things I may be clinging to. Shame, control, past pain, unhealthy relationships…thankful that God is a God of life and hope. A God who changes old to new.
“Oh God of endings, you promised to be with me always, even to the end of time. Move with me now in these occasions of last things, of shivering vulnerabilities and letting go…
…Be with me in my end of things,
dead ways,
dead words, dead self I hold so tightly, defend so blindly, fear losing so frantically…” Excerpt from Guerillas of Grace by Ted Loder
This day I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the Lord is your life.” Deut. 30:19-20.
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