Fall Leaves

I love fall… love love love.  Favorite season, favorite time of year, its so beautiful and lovely and reminds me of how God is such an amazing creator.  As I was driving home yesterday I was looking around at all the absolutely gorgeous leaves- some yellow, some orange, some red, some still green… all in different kinds of trees that were different heights and in different stages of turning and falling from the trees.  Seeing them all gave me one of those moments of revelation about ourselves and God.  

I thought to myself…. what if all the trees were the same and how that would take away so much from the beauty.  We all are like those trees.  We've had the seed planted in us and it has been growing-  that makes us all different heights and different species of trees depending on who we are.  And because we all aren't the same, the harvest that we produce comes at different times in different sizes and in different colors- and that is what makes it so lovely!  The beauty of the differences between us all working together to serve one master- the one who created us.  

Instead of all striving to be the same and do the same things as one another, we need to rejoice in our differences and serve God in the way that He designed us to, not the way that other people around us serve Him.  He created us this way that all things would be seen and loved, not just the same thing being loved by many.  The implications of this has such a profound impact.  It also reminded me to be content with the size of the harvest we produce- that it may be smaller than others but that does not make it any less important.  Without that little red beautiful firey tree-  the huge yellow ones would all blend into one another.  Seeing the colors of fall now reminds me to embrace the ways I am different from my friends and to seek God's will that I will be able to produce a beautiful harvest.