And here we are at the end of October, and the official Wisconsin Fall Color Report reports that our little paradise is already listed as “fading peak.” You can still get a taste of autumn fireworks if you get here within a few days. It IS almost November, don’t you know.
I got sucked in Monday night by the baseball game. I was ready to go to bed and saw that the game was tied in the 12th inning. “Well, this is interesting, I may as well watch to see how it ends.” Three hours later, when it did finally end in the 18th, I could console myself that I had watched a bit of baseball history.
But it left me blank on Tuesday when I sat down to write something for this space. It’s a little odd to still be talking about baseball and the World Series with November just three days away.
Leafing through my journal for inspiration, I find the notes I took in church not this past Sunday but Sunday last. This is why we write things down, to discover them later and think, “Yes! I meant to remember this.”
So, with credit to Pastor Cory Dahl and completely out of context:
• Stop going through the motions.
• Life is too precious to coast.
• Have God’s honor in mind in whatever you do.
Now, there are some things worth contemplating as I look at the autumn fireworks across the highway.
