Pastor’s Perspective

It is fall now and still the temperature bursts through the nineties. Sometimes it crashes the party that the hundreds are having. Labor Day has come and gone. The county fair has come and gone. I cannot imagine how native Americans lived in this weather, packing up and picking up and transporting everything to a new place in the dry heat.

 Of course, during the fall months of the liturgical calendar, that's what we are doing. We've been in the season of Pentecost since spring ended, but now we're about to begin the seasonal migration to December and Advent. Of course, there is a lot to be thankful for in these hot, dry days of October. Harvests of memories. Time to give thanks. Time to anticipate the season ahead. Grace is present at every mark on the thermometer.