A few years ago, I took this photo while standing in our driveway. We don't live in the mountains anymore, and there isn't this much color yet on leaves where we live now here in the Upstate of South Carolina. But colors like this are part of the reason I love October! Perhaps it's the same for you as well.
October is the month of red and gold and orange leaves.
Of pumpkins and apples.
Of fall festivals.
Of cool mornings and warm afternoons.
Of leaves falling.
This year, October is also the last full month of the election season. For many of us, that's good news. We are weary of endless television commercials and tweets and social media postings. We are weary of pundits telling us what we should think. We are weary of double standards and corruption and half-truths. We have survived previous election seasons, and I suspect we'll survive this one as well. But I think we are feeling a little battered and bruised by the whole thing. This political season seems uglier than most.
Perhaps that's one of the reason we are so grateful for the gift of October. The beauty of October is a pleasant change from the ugliness of partisan politics.
For those who live here in the South, October is a welcome respite from the extreme heat we experienced all summer, and even through September.
For those who live further north, October extends the beauty of summer a little longer before the winter months of snow and ice and extreme cold.
October is a gift! Let's enjoy every moment of it, and give thanks to the Giver of all things for such a wonderful gift as October!
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." - from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
"O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." (Psalm 106:1 ESV)
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