Now that Halloween is over, the stores can stock with nice stuff...I have an aversion to all the ghoulish stuff that comes with Halloween...too garish and evil looking...there is enough of the real evil without emphasizing it for my taste...
I am a Halloween baby, meaning I was born on Halloween decades ago...and the decades are accumulating...so I want good things to show off my fall birthday...the rich colors of fall, the harvest, the changing of the seasons, the pumpkins, fall apples...fun costumes-fairies, princesses, swashbucklers, Knights, creative homemade costumes...a celebration of life and days...
This just points beyond to the celebration we have of thanksgiving for provision and finally to the celebration of our Savior's birth....we don't have exact days for these, but thanksgiving should be ongoing...Christmas represents Christ's birth, without whom we would have no salvation...
Thank YOU for fall, it's experiences, it's richness, it's waiting for the celebration of Life...Real Life in Christ...
then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 11:14-15
Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
Acts 14:17
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
Matthew 1:18-25
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