Time, time, time, see what’s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
-A Hazy Shade of Winter, by Paul Simon

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

As a child, I enjoyed the fall season. It was a time for me to hunt and to enjoy the great outdoors. I remember walking through newly-combined cornfields on my way to my favorite duck hunting spot. Sadly, I have not hunted much since I was a young.

Back then there were no cellphones. Because my dad had health problems, he would drop me off a mile or so from our duck hunting spot. Then he would pick me up a couple hours later. I was just eleven or twelve and armed with a shotgun and a duck call.

The seasons are a lot like life. When we are children, we are in the spring season. As young adults we move into the summer season. When we get a few years on us it is the fall/autumn season, and when we get older we are in our winter season.   Continue reading →