Wednesday, September 29, 2021


The end of September brings cooler air.  The rainy day that’s forecasted will lead into typical fall weather with nights that make us want to snuggle up with a comforter around us.  We don’t feel cold enough yet to turn on the heat but those days are coming.


The silence is different on an early fall morning before the sunrise. The windows have been washed and the storms are down so not even the sounds of the last crickets now weakening with the chilly nights can be heard. 


It’s time to bring in the tender plants but because plants grow over the summer, it’s difficult to find enough places inside to put them.  Several years ago I bought a lovely summer plant which I was able to winter over but I didn’t count on its seeds getting into other parts of the garden where they are now sprouting like God’s love that needs to be shared. 


Prayer for the Day


Feeling the chill of the wind, we turn our faces toward the sky,

   For we know that it is a harbinger of what is to come;

The tender plants seem to reach for our warm hands,

   To bring them indoors and save them from the cold.

You, O God who warms our hearts, be with us in this time

   As we seek to do your will by saving more than the plants.

In the name of the One who saves us through love,

   Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.


Thoughts for the Day


What we plant in the oil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.

            Meister Eckhart, German theologian/philosopher (1260-1328)


Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing ever comes to birth, and without light, nothing flowers.

            May Sarton, American poet (1912-1995)


Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass, and as the showers on the herb.

            Deuteronomy 32:2