Heading into Labor Day weekend and many of us are wondering, “Where did the summer go?” Don’t worry, it’s not over yet, at least weather wise. In spite of today’s cooler morning and pleasant day, this coming week with temperatures forecast to be in the 90s promises to give us a taste of the summer we thought we had missed.
Last night’s moon was really quite extraordinary, especially the moonrise. Combined with the sounds of crickets and the waft of late blooming flowers, it was almost enough to make you want to just bask in its beauty, forgetting the world’s troubles.
I wonder what the ancients must have thought about the moon, reduced sometimes in our modern scientific thinking into a gray dead mass. One could almost imagine the origin of myths about a full moon, so bright that it illumines all around us. But now, in the early morning light, it’s time to move into the day and its challenges.
Prayer for the Day
The winds of summer are not over yet as the fall approaches,
Your earth breaking open with the bounty of harvest;
The evenings will grow cooler and days grow shorter,
And we begin to consider the winter yet to come.
Burrow deep into our hearts your call to love those around us,
So we reflect your ways in our daily lives.
In the name of the One who opens our hearts,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
In many ways. September feels like the busiest time of the year. The ids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
- Brené Brown, writer
September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jurist (1841-1935)
The Lord turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
And there the hungry shall live as they established towns to live in;
They sow fields and plant vineyards, and get a fruitful yield.
By god’s blessing they multiply greatly, and their cattle do not decrease.
Psalm 107: 35-38aa