Welcome to October. The month of falling leaves, pumpkin spice, baseball playoffs, and changing colors has arrived. It’s a beautiful time of year. And it happens to hold my husband’s birthday and our anniversary, so that makes October special to us.
When we planned our wedding for late October I really didn’t worry about the weather as it was planned indoors in the evening. It was a beautiful fall day but by the time our cake and punch reception was over, it was down right chilly. So my new husband put a beautiful white, fur-trimmed coat around my shoulders as we ran to a friend’s waiting car.
October holds a variety of weather from cold bristly days to warm surprises in late autumn. The birds and ‘snowbirds’ prepare for a trip south while the rest of us make the semiannual exchange of wardrobes, pulling out the coats and sweaters once again.
And in case you haven’t noticed all the commercials on television and yard signs posted, it is also an election year. October is a month of preparing for the chance to use our right to vote.
“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).
Timothy’s wisdom was well beyond his years. This scripture couldn’t be more relevant to today’s current events and issues. Be prepared by knowing the Word. October is a good month to spend time reading the Bible and studying the Word. So slip on a sweater and cozy up with Scripture; be prepared.
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