Fleeting

There is the lovely tree across the street that has, punch-you-in-the-face red leaves and it tends to take my breath away daily.
Each morning as I get in my car I think about what a dashing picture it would make.
Notice I said each.
For literally 3 weeks I have been thinking that.
Today I was getting in my car, the thought crossed again followed by the Holy Spirit...
"you know, those leaves aren't going to stay there forever..."
I knew it was finally time, or it would be too late.



That little dialogue from the HS hit me, yep. those leaves aren't going to stay there forever.

This life is fleeting.
Each season changes, as time passes, leaves slowly fall.
We age.
We change.
We mature.

It hit home again today when I met someone who is in stage 4 of rectal cancer...
wow.


Time is fleeting.

...he was a really "healthy" person...

Just like a tree, we bloom.
We take leaf.

We transform, provide the earth with beauty...then just as we began, we return to dust.