Gardens along the way...26...Lord of the harevest...

 Gardens along the way...26.....Lord of the harvest...

I arrived home to two arm loads of zucchini, they were quickly dispersed to others as well as my refrigerator and into my protein zucchini breakfast muffins...

When I returned to the “Y”, the front table was loaded with melons, tomatoes, green and red peppers, cucumbers, squash, popcorn....all to be shared  from other gardens, blessing one another with their abundance...beautiful colors...celebrate the new season...the end of the summer...harvest....autumn...

(“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go”...unknown....)

Harvest time in Idaho means truck loads of onions, corn, silage, wheat, sugar beets, dry beans, hay in all sorts of sized bales, apples, peaches, pears, seeds, hops, pumpkins, winter squash ...to name a few...food for multitudes...(and dust from the harvesting)...

We don’t celebrate like the Jews did , but it would be fun to do...remembering to whom we are thankful and for what...we have Thanksgiving later, but even that has gotten pushed aside, lost between Halloween and a commercial Christmas...

But thankfulness is not just for the fall... it is an attitude and way of life...

The Lord of the harvest is there all the time...blessing, interceding, loving...thank YOU...

“Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

Exodus 23:16

For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Deuteronomy 16:15 

The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

Psalm 67:6 

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Matthew 9:37-38 

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

John 4:34-38 

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Galatians 6:9-10 

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

James 3:18