I’m so glad I live in a world where there are OCTOBERS—Anne of Green Gables

October remains my favorite month of the year, and just maybe because it is my birth month. But even more there’s an awe with this impressive change that occurs. Our Creator’s creativity capturing the spirit of October thrills my soul as He allays the thick heat vapors of summer –which have worn out their welcome—and dispatches the most refreshing breezes upon us mingled with leaves that have been released from the firm grip of their sapling to now dance to their resting spot. This stunning display of color covering the ground meets the cheery array of Chrysanthemums while quirky scarecrows salute fairytale pumpkins on porches and lawns.

These are all the Reasons I was made for October. 😉

As a child, experiencing October meant “trick or treating” through the neighborhood. And every year I knew the Fishers would be handing out their famous homemade popcorn balls. While my trick or treating days are long past I still love for my local grandsons to make their appearance for a bonfire and roasting marshmallows evening. We love putting another log on the fire and cooking up hotdogs along with a “Black Cake” (spiced chocolate with a peanut butter/coffee icing -my grandmother’s recipe) as we continue celebrating not only my birthday but my daughter’s as well.

We were made for October!

October is a time for change – the weather changes and we change our thermostats, we go shopping and change our décor, not to mention our wardrobe, and there is also the time change that will shortly be upon us (Daylight Savings Time). But the greatest and most rewarding change that we can ever make is becoming more like our Savior, Jesus Christ!

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ! —assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:17-24, ESV).

October: A Time for Change!

Are you made for October?

For His glory,

Scarlett