Wisdom Sharing: Shifts in the Season

The season of creation has given way to the season of harvest and anticipates the resting season that comes. What is your experience of the season of creation’s shifts?

Outside our back door and on my walks around our Dubuque neighborhood, the Book of Nature indicates the seasonal change. Birds and animals are actively preparing, as geese overhead fly south and squirrels are storing nuts. Deer have shed their summer coats for the grey-brown of winter warmth. Summer garden blooms are mostly gone, as the vivid fall blooms react to cooler nights with more intense colors than their pastel brethren of the past season.

Trees are changing to the multiple, vibrant colors of autumn–each tree family according to its own time frame. Orange and yellow and red thrive together along the bluff. The Mississippi is a deep blue under sunshine, or a muddy brown under gray skies. As winds blow stronger and it’s jacket weather, leaves are falling more rapidly and crunch underfoot.  The season of creation has given way to the season of harvest and anticipates the resting season that comes.

Reflection by Mary Martens, BVM