Fall is here! I love every part of it:
turning leaves
Getting out the blankets
Warm drinks
Harvest time
Longer evenings
Chilly mornings
Pumpkins, scarecrows, Fall desserts!
I’d love to hear what you enjoy most about this beautiful season of winding down and letting go…
Angel encounters…
Have you experienced one? I would love to hear your story!
This angel encounter of mine is one of my most memorable.
The excerpt is from Angels, in my book, Divine Encounters...
“Several years ago, my son and I were on a road trip. All
was fine and low-key until it wasn’t. A car passing us suddenly
lost the entire driver’s side wheel. It shot straight in front of
our car, bounced, and flew backward, heading directly for our
windshield. We were in the fast lane with a guardrail to the
right and the swerving car with the missing wheel to the left. In
slow motion, I watched in terror as that wheel shot straight at
us. At the absolute last moment, it veered completely opposite
its trajectory path, physically impossible, as if something with
an incredible amount of force pushed it, and the wheel hit the
guard rail and stopped. My son and I would have been killed or
gravely injured that day had angels not intervened and brought
that spinning tire under God’s control. The divine among us.”
Photo credit: Andri File
If you found yourself relaxing in this hammock, a fall breeze ruffling your hair, would you lean into it and let yourself day dream?
Would you nap, read a book, just be in nature?
I think day dreaming is healing and peaceful. Allowing your mind to drift where it will and give permission to your wildest dreams and wishes, no expectations, no stiff parameters, just freedom–making room for Jesus to speak to you, heal you, give discernment and wisdom.
There is freedom to hope and hope is a very powerful thing.
Photo credit: Zeynep Kahraman
I’m curious…
Have you had a divine encounter with Jesus?
There are so many ways He reveals Himself to us, as intimate and diverse as there are people.
in dreams
in divinely planned connections with another
in the quiet beauty of an alpine meadow
on the beach as waves crash & toss
in a moments of deep prayer
in the early morning hours on the patio
in the pages of His word
I love that He knows us so well that each encounter we have with Him is so deeply intimate, personal, and perfectly timed.
How about you? Where have you had an encounter with Jesus?
Photo credit: Turuncu Salak
We lovers of Autumn have a sixth sense about us, a knowing when that first revelation of summer’s end has arrived.
It is felt on the skin in that barely discernable nip and twinge of air, charged with the slightest chill; awareness that the atmosphere has changed just a smidge.
Autumn’s scent is unique and mischievous. Earthy and deep; wise, pungent, and bold in the way brown leaf tips, restless trees, and fading flowers bend and drop to the Earth, daring the one watching to stop them; to impede the ancient progress of a slow, yet lovely descent into quiet and rest.
That spritely spurt of wind, which tosses and dances fallen leaves and finished flowers round and round, is delightful. What is it about piling up crispy, browned leaves then dashing them about, flinging them from orderly piles into random and untamed flurries of color? A new beginning; a tossing and mixing up of the old, lazy routine into something new; a plan to disrupt the status quo and wait patiently through the winter, as that plan takes form and substance. Somehow the chaos of it is lovely and energizing, part of the ritual. It is one more wild streak before the settling and simmering of autumn moves on to the mystery and silent brooding of winter.
The discerning observer will witness Nature’s response to the shift from the indolent, dog days of summer to autumn’s call to let go. The song of quiet purpose and intention, as Mother Earth whispers it’s time to fold in, cozy up, and allow rest to perform its miracles and the deep, sweet slumber of winter to wait in the wings.
There is something inspiring and invigorating in this call to purposeful letting go, an anticipation. Is it the definitive color changes and that unmatched fall scent in the air that feels like a new beginning? Is it the crisp sensation of fall air as one breathes it in?
Welcome Autumn! Come and show off your colors and dare us to think about the dead or dying places that we need to let fall; not with sadness or fear; but with anticipation that a season of silent regrouping, where new life starts to bud, will soon break free with the coming of spring. It’s coming, and it will be glorious!
Photo credit: Christina & Peter
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