“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
We’ve stepped into summer. The days are longer, the air is warmer, and nature has settled into its full bloom. As we welcome this new season, let’s pause and reflect on the one that’s just passed.
Spring often passes quickly, but so much happens in those few months. Creation points us to new life and renewal; we see beauty spring from the ground up!
Ruth Bell Graham captures this transition in the poem below, reflecting not only on how quickly spring and fall pass, but also on the thought that perhaps God made them brief on purpose—to remind us that beauty, like the kind we see in creation during springtime, is often fleeting by design.
It’s a call to pause, acknowledge the season we are in, and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us while it’s still here.
. . . They Come and Go So Quickly
From Legacy of a Pack Rat
By Ruth Bell Graham
They come and go so quickly
Spring and Fall . . .
as if they had not really
come at all.
Perhaps
we could not take
too much of beauty,
breath-catching glory,
ecstasy without relief;
and so
God made them
brief.