It's only a few days away. The season will change. Another division of our calendar will occur, separating a period of time. It's a reminder that what is ahead will be different from what was yesterday. The drones of the locusts have been getting louder and deeper. The soybeans are turning golden. An occasional leaf comes drifting by the window. The air is moist and cool. Football is the sport of choice outside. Mums and asters are blooming. The garden's produce is slowing down with the pumpkins bright and orange and squash is firm and ready to store for winter. Autumn is almost here.
The weather is the most obvious variable in the seasons, at least that is true in Iowa. But our weather has been so unusual this past year that I'm not sure we can define our season by the weather on a single day. The season in totality is usually correct, but one day of the season often doesn't equal the definition. In Iowa, fall is usually comfortable sunny days and cool nights.
When autumn arrives we know to prepare for days where shoes and socks feel good and a jacket is a true comfort. The geese begin to fly south in their distinctive "V's", and they honk the warning to others as they pass by. The boxelder bugs and asian beetles or ladybugs begin to hover along the south side of the house, waiting to bask in the warm rays of sun, and sneak their way inside. It is time. Be on alert. Watch for and listen to the signs and be ready.
"Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage --with great patience and careful instruction, For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:2,3 NIV).
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