The changing of the seasons

This picture was taken in Acadia National Park about five minutes before I took the picture of the branch with the one red leaf that many you liked so much (posted on October 7th). I absolutely love fall, and this year was amazing getting to see the beginnings of color in New England. It seems like every fall I always listen to the song Every Season by Nichole Nordeman. I've posted the lyrics on here before, sung it in church, talked about it on the church blog and in newsletters, but this year I want to share it with you in this video I saw this week. I hope that this song will help inspire you to look for the ways God wants to work in your lives this fall. He loves you very much.



Every evening sky, an invitation
To trace the patterned stars
And early in July, a celebration
For freedom that is ours
And I notice You
In children’s games
In those who watch them from the shade
Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder
You are summer

And even when the trees have just surrendered
To the harvest time
Forfeiting their leaves in late September
And sending us inside
Still I notice You when change begins
And I am braced for colder winds
I will offer thanks for what has been and was to come
You are autumn

And everything in time and under heaven
Finally falls asleep
Wrapped in blankets white, all creation
Shivers underneath
And still I notice you
When branches crack
And in my breath on frosted glass
Even now in death, You open doors for life to enter
You are winter

And everything that’s new has bravely surfaced
Teaching us to breathe
What was frozen through is newly purposed
Turning all things green
So it is with You
And how You make me new
With every season’s change
And so it will be
As You are re-creating me
Summer, autumn, winter, spring