Ahhh...it tis fall, the air has the cool crisp feel, especially when one leaps out of bed in the morning. Such a greeting is refreshing the first time each year...but let's be honest, by day three you want to see how effective it would be to attempt and put on your sweats in bed so as to trap the heat with you until you can manage your way to the warm shower and then there is the challenge of getting out of the shower and into your clothes as fast and as dry and warm as possible, let's just say I'm still working out all the kinks in that process. And to tell the truth, I just grit my teeth down on the ol' retainer in the morning and live with the goosebumps and hairy legs (and yes mother I still believe that goosebumps makes your leg hair get longer) that result from the cold transfer from bed to shower to clothing.
Ahhh...but back to the cool crisp refreshing fall air that is a joy to run in and makes it all the more better to work up a sweat b/c you know your working hard if you can get your shirt soaked clear through as opposed to four days before when you just had to sit outside and the same results came about, or you can be blessed like me and have a perpetual sweat ring going on in the armpit (axillary) region and be darn proud of it!
But yes...fall, a beautiful time of year. Everything starts to change...the leaves turn orange, yellow, red, brown...the neighbors put out hideous halloween decorations...the classroom obtains a fragrance of coffee every morning as the sleepy darkness is fought off with cups of caffeine (starbucks brew compliments of our very own starbucks barista)...fall brings a sense of hope.
Hope that the seasons will continue as planned, hope that the winter will be beautiful and nice and relatively short, hope that Christmas break will come soon, hope that it will be a welcomed time of year and reunions will be secured with family and friends.
What is this hope...well, I was hoping you'd ask that. I've been pondering it for about a week now. The term/idea/word was brought to my attention as a friend made a wonderful comment on it and I quote, "It seems like hell when you’re going through it but I’m a big fan of hope and hope tells me that there’s healing." Now healing from what...from whatever is on your plate right now...healing in sickness, stress, time, emotional, mental, physical, relationships, anything and everything that you are looking for an end in. aka healing in life as our end goal is all the same and centered around the same person/God/deity/place to be besides here on this changing earth. Now the Bible has a lot to say about hope, so much that I got as far as the first oh seven references to it and stopped there and that was just mostly in psalms and proverbs...basically, it says hope = life; hope in Lord= being blessed, renewed strength; hope in His unfailing love=Lord's delight; hope for future=won't be cut off
so that's what the Bible says here's my personal definition.
Hope is inner excitement, anticipation, and yearning. All that I call my hope is my looking to the future which is centered on Jesus. That's my hope, that's how I view hope, centered on Jesus...how would you explain hope to someone who is without? Hard question...have to go back to the seasons I spose...hope in a new day, hope in a new time...hope is so much easier with God.
whew, that's deep...enough of a break, though it is fall break. woohoo!
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