Looking for
a different outlook on life? Maybe you
just need a change of scenery. Take a
look outside; fall is showing off a grand spectacle. As autumn leaves transform our trees October
brings us back to fall once more as time moves forward. It is that time of the year where we get out
our sweaters, make hot chocolate in lieu of iced tea, and switch up our brooms
for rakes. It is the season where kids
love to jump into a pile of leaves sky high and family road trips to get fresh
cider are a must. It is also the season
where the preserving process begins.
Before
modern times of refrigeration and canning became available the food preserving
process was not something to be reckoned with.
If you didn’t salt or pickle certain foods correctly come mid winter
your family would begin to hunger. People knew this and preserved their food
with care and caution. A trip to the local grocery store’s freezer and
canned food sections were not an option.
Back in the
days of Laura Ingalls Wilder they made time for this preserving ritual knowing
the advantages and disadvantages of their work in progress.
Sure today
we don’t have to worry about salting a slab of meat properly or even “putting
up” twenty quarts of tomatoes to get us through the winter months. Nonetheless we still need the act of
preserving in a different way. In prayer
and fasting along with alms-giving and repentance we need to continue to work
on saving our soul.
We have
certain things we must work towards, one of them being heaven. We earn heaven through working on our
relationship with God by deep reverence for Him, intentionally forgoing
something desired for the intention of a prayer, giving more than just our
surplus of leftovers, and being genuinely sorry for our wrongdoings and
choosing to change.
Autumn is a
good time to fall back into a pile of leaves sky high and as we land softly in nature’s
sweepings take time to think of how we can change to better earn our spot in
the life to come.
If you feel
like you are in a rut follow autumn’s transformation of change and set up some preserves
for the future.
Don’t we all
need a change of scenery now and then?
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