"Sweet Redemption Rings in the Air"
Thanks to you who read my last post all the way through. I read somewhere that 90% of people don't scroll past the top of a page, so for those of you who exerted the extra energy it took to click your mouse a few more times to get to the end, I hope it was worth your while! That was a really helpful post for me, and I hope you benefited from it as well.
I'm convinced that the Fall season was especially made for Greenville (or Greenville for the Fall). I was walking with Christina and Kyle tonight at Furman, and we talked about how amazing the weather has been the past few days, with the "leaf confetti" that's been sprinkling down on me all week as I "hike" to my classes (it's really not that far, I'm just a complainer). There's no better place to be during the Fall then Furman (other than Greenville, but Furman happens to be IN Greenville so that works out well...).
Fall has always held good memories for me. Lots of fun things have happened to me in the Fall, and this incredible weather has served as a reminder to me of our sanctification. (Huh?) Yep, it sure does. The leaves die and fall to make way for new ones coming in the Spring, the same as our old sin habits and patterns must die to make way for the new life that is being worked out in us through Jesus Christ. We're not done yet, just as those trees are not done once all their leaves are gone. There might be a Winter season that comes for a while, but the Spring brings new growth, new life, and new hope. So for me these days, "sweet redemption rings in the air" (Sandra McCracken) each time I see a falling leaf. It promises good things SOON, even though I have to wait a little while longer.
I told you I'm not original ... Here's another quote ... enjoy :)
"This life, therefore, is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.The process is not yet finished but it is going on.This is not the end but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified."
--Martin Luther
I'm convinced that the Fall season was especially made for Greenville (or Greenville for the Fall). I was walking with Christina and Kyle tonight at Furman, and we talked about how amazing the weather has been the past few days, with the "leaf confetti" that's been sprinkling down on me all week as I "hike" to my classes (it's really not that far, I'm just a complainer). There's no better place to be during the Fall then Furman (other than Greenville, but Furman happens to be IN Greenville so that works out well...).
Fall has always held good memories for me. Lots of fun things have happened to me in the Fall, and this incredible weather has served as a reminder to me of our sanctification. (Huh?) Yep, it sure does. The leaves die and fall to make way for new ones coming in the Spring, the same as our old sin habits and patterns must die to make way for the new life that is being worked out in us through Jesus Christ. We're not done yet, just as those trees are not done once all their leaves are gone. There might be a Winter season that comes for a while, but the Spring brings new growth, new life, and new hope. So for me these days, "sweet redemption rings in the air" (Sandra McCracken) each time I see a falling leaf. It promises good things SOON, even though I have to wait a little while longer.
I told you I'm not original ... Here's another quote ... enjoy :)
"This life, therefore, is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise.We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it.The process is not yet finished but it is going on.This is not the end but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified."
--Martin Luther
posted by Ashley Sarratt @ 10:27 PM
2 Comments:
At 1:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
How can you say you are not original? You put your own uniqe personality into everything you do and that makes you, you!
At 5:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
I wish I'd gone out one day earlier to take pictures of Furman; it seems like I'm always late for things. The day before was when all the leaves were coming down like rain, and the trees hadn't yet reached the stage where half the leaves were golden, and the other ones were starting to become kind of a yucky brown.
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