Harvest

“The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭67:6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Autumn has always been the time of the year for harvesting. The fields are full of ripe products ready to be collected for selling, using, or consuming.

Right now, our bees are finishing this year’s work of collecting nectar, making honey, and pollinating plants and trees. Every year brings new challenges for them and us to complete our work and help to produce the final product.

As part of God’s plan for us, we work to help grow God’s kingdom by spreading his word and his grace to everyone. We start in “spring” as a baby by accepting his grace personally and asking him into our hearts and lives.

Next, we move into “summer” where we learn and grow in our relationship with God and start to spread his word and grace. We cultivate the seeds that are sown and nurture the delicate new seedlings to strong plants that start to produce fruit.

Then, we move to the harvest time. This is the time where God harvests the fruits of our labor and we see how our hard work pays off. The meaning of our life is finally starting to be seen by us.

Harvest is the time of the year that is often the happiest and saddest. Happiest because of all of the ripe fruit but saddest because we know that Winter is coming and the final season of life is coming. Enjoy every season, work hard to do your part, and be excited for God loves every season of our lives and cherishes every one of us.

Enjoy the harvest and welcome to Serenity.