[Faith-talk] Good Night Message for Saturday, September 28 2012

[Paul]

Hello and good evening to my fellow North Americans, and good Lord's Day to others residing in other parts of the world.  How is your Lord's day going? I hope well, by God's matchless grace and His providential care, and I also hope that you received a good word from the Lord as imparted to you by your pastors and/or Sunday school teachers and, more importantly, that you will apply what you have heard and learned to your individual lives as the gracious Holy Spirit enables.  For us in the western hemisphere, I hope that your day went well and that you will retire for the night, ready to face the Lord's Day with a sense of peace and joy in your lives, individually and collectively.

Clay Harrison, also known as the undersigned, wrote this poem back in October 2007 and entitled it "Multicolored Autumn Days," rendered as follows:

Autumn leaves are falling now,
Carpeting the ground
Like pieces of a puzzle
Waiting to be found.
The clear, blue skies of summertime
Are slowly turning gray,
As farmers reap their harvests
With gratitude each day.

There is frost on the pumpkins now
In fields mile after mile,
But soon they will beguile us
With jack-o-lantern smiles.
There's cider at every roadside stand
And candied apples, too,
With gourds in assorted sizes
And mums of every hue.

As multicolored autumn days
Unravel near and far,
Each one serves to remind us
How richly blessed we are!

And there you have it for today.  Some of you who are astute collectors of poems might have noticed the reference to a classic work by James Whitcomb Riley (1840-1916) in the reference to frost on the pumpkin.

And now may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, individually and collectively, throughout this night or day and especially in these last days in which we live.  Your Christian friend and brother, Paul