The Ambience of Autumn

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Morning Song

In His wonderful economy of time, our gracious God has brought us full cycle to that time of His superlative serendipity we call autumn again. The apples have almost fallen, the gardens have been put to sleep, the bird bath is full of leaves, other leaves scurry across the yards searching for refuge under shrubberies, and some mornings, ice forms on the shallow pool of water in the fountain-but our bird friends continue to share their song.

They teach me so many lessons of life. High up on the tallest of our pine trees they perch to sing, undaunted by the approach of ice or snow. And when we rake the lawn they follow to discover each small morsel that has hidden under fallen leaves. And in the twilight they find their refuge for the night in adjacent trees, and we awaken before dawn to hear them singing their morning song, asking to be remembered with simple seeds and fresh water.

It reminds me that when circumstances go wrong for many of us-when life turns in on us and we confront difficulties or disappointments, we often lose our song. But not these feathered friends-they sing even when forgotten!

I would wish to live so close to Christ that nothing will ever sever us from the joy He imparts-that neither the chill of the descending winter, or the approach of darkness, or the burdens of another day, will prevent us from singing our way through the clouds of circumstances.

How often we say, "If only I had this or that, then I'd be happy as the lark in the sky." But we can be happy because we know that underneath every circumstance of life there rests the goodness and love of our Heavenly Father, who fills our cup of life with His Grace.

(I think that's why the birds go on signing even in the wintertime