I notice that lately I am attracted to 'warm colors'. I have been looking at a paint catalog for my new house and it is the warmer colors that stand out for me. A few years ago when I chose the colors for my present house, it was the 'cool colors' - it was greens and blues all over the house and the curtains too! Now the greens and blues are no longer attractive - they seem to create distance. And they don't seem to speak of the wholeness and integrity that I look for in life. Browns and pale orange and peach...colors that have a glow about them, reminding me of beautiful autumn colors. Maybe I am entering an autumn season in terms of age too!! It's the same with our spiritual lives. Some seasons we are attracted to and nurtured by certain spiritual practices, a certain theme may run through our lives, like the lush growth and flowering of summer - green plants and blue skies. Then comes the autumn, a time of gathering fruit that has been ripened by the summer sun. A time when letting go is a recurrent theme. A time when hanging on would be inappropriate. A time when even shedding leaves has a special kind of beauty, in God's seasons. A season for everything - as the ancient author Quoleth has declared.
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