The Morning Show with Mike & Susan

I love to walk past piles of pumpkins! Whether they are in a field, on a pallet at my grocery store or sitting on the neighbor’s front steps! It makes me feel like Fall - like the holidays are coming!  It makes me think that it’s cooler even when it’s still hot! The look of Fall is enough for  me to make me FEEL Autumn!

I grew up in the North - about this time of year the fields were filled with drying corn and corn stalks! The wind would blow across a field and there would be a sound of the leaves clicking together - I can’t describe the sound to you now but it was what I would fall asleep to on an Autumn night….it heralded harvest! Now, just walking by the pumpkins and displays with the dried maze trigger my memories - I can almost smell the smells and feel the cool of it all. I love this season!

I love Christmas, so don’t misunderstand when I say I don’t like it when people jump right past the pumpkins and fall  decorations and leap straight into Christmas!  I want the seasons…I want to enjoy this Autumn Harvest season and what it means.  It means that the planting, the wait and the tending of the crops has proven to be faithful and it’s time now to gather in! I love that! I don’t want to jump past it!  It’s important for us all to understand what the harvest represents! 

We don’t live in an agronomist society like we used to.  We used to depend on the seasons for what determined what our work was, what our food was and what our focus became!  In the spring…it was about planting….and then tending and over the summer it was the waiting, tending and watering…then in the Fall - Harvest!  It taught us about so much of life by following the seasons…we learned that what you plant doesn’t immediately give you a result…that you have to be willing to tend it even when it isn’t yielding fruit for months…we learned that you have to fertilize and water it over and over again even while you are not allowed to reap the good of it yet.  We learned that even at harvest there is a time to pluck up…but if you try to take it too early it will not be ripe enough and wait too long and it’s ruined in the field…You learn that without careful tending bugs can move in and destroy what you’ve planted…birds will try and take away your harvest if you don’t protect it.  This season of Harvest is so important as a lesson that God even used it for us in Ecclesastes.

Our seasons are sometimes long-sometimes short - in life too…but if we work at jumping over the seasons, short changing them so to speak,  we will miss the lessons to be learned in them.  I know that there have been seasons in my life that I have wanted to be over with ASAP! But looking back on those seasons I’ve discovered if I had rushed through or jumped over that season, I would have missed what I had to learn in that place of my life!

Seasons! there are reasons that we have them in our life…we need to experience them!  Not rush through them or ignore them to jump into the next season - You know what I mean?!

BONUS PICTURES OF BABY RYAN!!!

Here are the Bonus Baby photos of my grandson Ryan…he’s a little over two months old now and growing way too fast!!  The picture of him “wired up” was taken when he had to go to the Pediatric Cardiologist for his heart murmer….great news is doctor says he’s fine! 

The other pictures were taken the weekend Nana got to go hang with him after he turned 2 — months!

The Baby has a heart murmer - and this is a picture of him and his daddy at the cardiologist getting some tests down…all of the wires are hard from Nana to look at…but look how sweet he is - and look at how good daddy is with Baby Ryan!  How precious is that!