Fall has fallen

The leaves that is. We have 5 pecan trees in the yard and they are working overtime on making leaves, or at least making them fall. The picture is only showing less than half of them and the street is full as well along the curb. Raking and bagging the leaves is probably my least favorite thing to do. Usually we just mulch them with the lawnmower but this year there were too many. I have blown them into piles and am slowly getting them into bags. The city picks them up and they dump them out of the bags. It would be nice if they would invest in a large leaf vacuum and just come by and vacuum them out of the yard. I'm sure that will never happen, but it would save on bags.

Martha is on holiday for Thanksgiving and we will go to visit some friends for Thanksgiving day. We have much to be thankful for at this time. I recently traveled to our daughter's house in Louisiana and stopped at our son's house on the way. I had time to spend with both and with all our grandchildren. we are blessed beyond measure to have them all and we don't get to see them often enough.

As I drove through the forests of east Texas with rays of sunlight filtering through the trees with their red, gold and green leaves, I was reminded of our creator who gave it all to us to care for and manage. We haven't done the best job of that but even so, it is beautiful. We are reminded by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to give thanks in every circumstance. The apostle does not say "for every circumstance" but "in every circumstance". No matter what comes our way we can rejoice and be thankful that God loves us, cares for us and is in complete control. He is still on His throne and always will be.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving, not forgetting to really give thanks to Him for all we have.