This is the season of plenty: plenty of fresh produce pouring from our gardens, plenty of daylight in which to harvest and put up for the distant dark days to come, plenty of work to be done in our yards and gardens and homes, plenty of heat, plenty of rain, plenty of stinging insects, plenty of lightning bugs if only we can stay awake long enough to see them rising against the night sky. It can be exhausting to have so much.
But the days are already growing shorter, the fireflies have dimmed, children will return to school on the 19th of this month. Let's remember that these days will not always be with us:
Teach us to number our days
so we can have a wise heart.
(Psalm 90:12)
Photo by Melinda Young Stuart, "Misty Mountains"
Late summer in Big Ivy, far northeast Buncombe County
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