We've been experiencing the most beautiful stretch of warm, sunny fall days, followed by chilly evenings. The farm is truly ablaze with color, I'd say this year the leaves are more vivid than usual. Someone said "It's because the weather's been dry." I don' have a clue about the science behind it, but it is a feast for the eyes. I love to take a drive just to see the different scenes as colors pop around each new turn. I'll be going to take one soon. I have to drive to Smicksburg for some horse supplies, which I buy in an Amish community. The drive will be good for the eyes and the soul. What a contrast is this beauty with the the dingy darkness that remains in my heart. I'm waiting for the day when this heart becomes only a thing of beauty, "when I see Him face to face." But for now, it is still not worthy of display. Any beauty within is His grace. Today it was "colored" with anger, something special which I had made, was destroyed because of someone else's lack of care...and my colors enraged, like a cauldron of poison. Instead of responding with the kindness and grace I've already received through Christ, I responded with sin and I did not oppose the sin, I gave vent to it. The result... I hurt someone I love. I am desperately needy of help to fight this impulse to retaliate when hurt. The good news is that I am deeply sorry for my sin, and I have been pardoned. And I do not battle the impulses of my dingy heart alone. I know that He is as able to make my heart as lovely as the landscape he paints with these breathtaking autumn colors. Praise be to Him.
Phillipians 1:6 I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
