BEAUTY IN THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS

Why is it, do you think, that we all love the autumn season and the beauty in the changing of the leaves?

And why is it that we hate aging of our human body and wrinkles and gray hair. Who has convinced us there is no beauty in that? Could it be vanity on our part?

The Bible tells us in Proverbs 31:30 that "..."Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." There is beauty in youth but there is also beauty in aging and the kind of beauty in aging is not vanity.

Beauty in the changing leaves looks forward to Spring when they come on anew and are alive and green. We (Christians) look forward to our "Spring" when we will be in heaven and have a new 'ageless' and glorious body.

Philippians 3:21  "...Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself."

Through the various ages of my life I have had favorite Scriptures that are meaningful and comforting to me at the time. Mine at this point in time: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "...Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

©Edna L. Ingram