Finding Gratitude Day 6: Fall

Rust-colored leaves hold on to the trees with their best effort, but all, in the end, lose their grip in to the branch, and gracefully tumble to the ground below. Their dying wish is to stay on the branch, to live as they've lived for the last months. And yet, leaf history says that each leaf for centuries have fallen. But, to those individual leaves, perhaps they think they can change tradition by clinging on for deal life that gave to the branch them life. 

To us, the dying leaf becomes beauteous in all the colors and variations, the dying leaf to us is a symbol of fall. 

Perhaps, perspective really does matter. When Christ asks us to die, to give up that thread of sin, to move on despite past hurts, to do what we think would change our lives forever, perhaps we need to look at it from Christ's perspective: that death to self isn't the end of the world, that it is beautiful to the Lord.

Enjoying Autumn,

~Rachel