Tapestry of Life

The day is gray and gloomy, but the colors are bright and vivid in my area.  Cobalt, lime, orange...there's a beautiful spray of fall and other vibrant colors all around me.  It's the dying of the old giving way to the birth of the new, but the transition is lengthy and it seems so desolate and lonely while transitioning, but nonetheless, it's a beautiful transformation.

Gone is the Spring where the colors were bright and new and crisp.  The heat of the Summer is gone and now the changing of the leaves gives way to burned oranges and yellow-greens and rusts and sienna.  All these beautiful colors will all burst for a short time to only drop to the ground and lay in silence as the wind catches and takes them away.  It's beautiful and sad all at the same time.

I wonder why it happens like this?  I wonder why the leaves that are so beautiful and so vibrant and so full of color and wonder must fall to the ground and blow off in the wind?  Maybe it's to make way for another beautiful season that is to come?  Maybe it's to break up the seasonal monotony?  Maybe it's a God's way of replenishing and restoring His earth?  A global grooming so to speak.  I like the idea of the latter :)

Whether we're in the blooming of our spring-like days or transitioning in the solstice of our fall or winter, it's still appropriate to live in full color and live it out loud.  Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall...all very different, all very colorful, all very whimsical in their own way.  Each season giving off it's own feeling and texture to the life it brings.  These seasons bring forth a tapestry that weaves into our daily lives and brings forth a beautiful pattern with its very own color wheel...we are so intricately diverse and complex, yet with each diversity and complexity comes a beauty that is simply outstanding!  

I'm never short of amazed at the differences we all hold.  It's like we are all a mosaic.  We in our own selves come to this blank canvas full of different colors, shapes, sizes, patterns, textures and piece ourselves one with another, knowingly or not, together to form a mass art structure that can stand alone or melt together to be something so spectacular that it's just breathtaking! 

Enjoy the pictures and remember that this season will pass very quickly with all of its beautiful and warm colors, but what you do today in this season can stand for years to come!