Wind

The leaves are about all dropped now. Well I suppose one could say there are plenty more to fall. Yet the wind and the rain have cleaned leaves from hundreds of trees in our area and the fall is making way for winter. The temperatures are not very cool so one can forget that winter is upon us - even the winds have a certain warmth to them. The radicall changes in the past few weeks bring to mind the question - what really matters? what is eternal?
In my mind, heart and soul I know: that everything matters and yet we are not to take any one thing too seriously; that God the Creator is eternal and constantly ready to love and affirm us; that life in some form always was and always will be; that change is inevitable. Today I heard a good quote: 'Success is not permanent. Failure is not fatal.' We are told that air/the wind is the breath of God. God breathed into humus and humans were born. When God breathes into us anew we are revitalized with the Spirit of God empowering us to do and be love alive.