10/31/2018 0 Comments FallGlaring out the classroom window in dismay, Alyssa watches the slow descent of a golden leaf as it breaks from a high branch on the tall oak tree just outside her window. Slowly it floats on the autumn breeze, until it comes to rest, on top of the carpet o others that fell before it, under the tree. “This fall season is a good resemblance of my life right now,” She whisper’s, “everything around me seems to be falling apart. Just like that leaf floating in the cool breeze, rejected by the tree; and, no where left to go but down… to be stepped on and crushed into the ground.” She turns to face her friend and co-worker Leena, who sat nearby in a rocking chair, trying to calm one of the toddlers in their class; “I don’t know how much more I can take right now. Just when I think I have made it over one hurdle, life throws me another one; and I’m… tired… I’m just tired.” She leans against the wall, slid down to the floor and hugged her knees; “I feel so defeated.” she laid her head on her knees to hide the tears she could no longer hold in. “Alyssa” Leena whispered softly, interrupting her thoughts; “you are looking at this all wrong; you say your life resembles fall, because, you view fall as an ending…as death, all dried up and lifeless” leaning closer, she takes Alyssa’s hands in hers; “fall isn’t about that at all. Sure, the leaves dry up and fall to the ground and die; but, that’s because the bad is falling away so the good can come in the spring”. Leena let go of her hand as she pushed up off the floor to stand. “So, look at all the bad that’s happening to you…Sidero leaving, job ending…all the bad is falling away so that God can bring the good in.”
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