Fall. I'm sure who ever started this word for this season was talking about the leaves from the trees.
Once a month I venture north to spend a 3 day weekend helping my brothers and sisters assist my mother, who lives in 53 acres of woods... It's a lot of trees and a WHOLE lot of leaves this time of year. As luck would have, my siblings have done 95% of the leaf picking up around the house. Now I can stay inside and stoke the fire and keep things cozy.
I know I'll have to do more than that, since the supply of wood in the basement won't make it through the weekend; oh well, a little excise shouldn't hurt me, huh?!
As I was traveling up last night, the news of the Ft. Hood killings were on the radio news and I thought "A world gone mad." I guess when you're hurting so bad that you don't care what happens, you just lose it and want to take it out on the world and you don't care any longer of the consequences that will affect hundreds if not thousands.
As the weeks pass, I'm sure that the people and events will be analyzed to death. Too bad the people involved weren't in Vicksburg a few weeks ago listening to a group of men talk about the things on their heart; with their plans for how God affected them. We as a community and individules, need to look around us and seek out the lost and hurting. Listen, listen, listen - love, love, love, and then maybe, just maybe there would be less Ft. Hood events.
Does anyone know when "woods" become "forest," like, how many arces?
DeColores ~ Brothers and Sisters - Rocky
Great post, Rocky.
ReplyDeleteThe world has been mad since Eden - I imagine someone hearing aboutr Sodom, or a housewife in Ninevah told to wear the burlap dress, or the crowd outside Pilate's house, or any of the wars since then, or the Inquisition, or the Crusades, etc, etc.
The peace between those all-too-frrequent events are blessings from God. Praise Him for every one of those.
Satan plants those weeds to distract us from the beauty of God's forest. He wants us to not see the forest for the weeds. :)