Signs of Winter

Sunsets are earlier, sunrises are later, nights are longer and colder. Forecast tells it's going to be a very wet week ahead.

Winter, really not my type of season but I love the rain.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. (Eccl 3:1)

(Extracts from: When God Began in the Middle, 'Twixt Spring and Autumn', by Joseph Juknialis)

To the season of AUTUMN, God said:
'Yours will be the gift of death --not a death shrouded in pain and sadness; rather, it shall be the joy of seeing the fulfillment of what has gone before. You will know the goodness of life richly lived. You will taste the sweetness of life harvested and shared.'

To the season of WINTER, God said:
'To you I give the gift of anticipation and preparation. Your task will be to prepare for new life. You shall set the patterns for colors and hues. You shall be the one to instill within the oak the ability to be strong, and within the rose its breathtaking delicacy. You shall give form and shape even before it is. You shall be the father and mother of what will be.'