..Labor Day is over and fall is upon us. Technically, fall begins in the Northern Hemisphere on September 22 at 10:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. (The Southern Hemisphere enters spring when we enter fall.) . School is back in session; football has begun. The season will change. ..Seasons were Gods invention. On the fourth day of creation he said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years (Genesis 1:14). Why did our Creator make seasons? ..One reason has to do with our climate. Our seasons are the result of our planets tilt—when your part of the world tilts toward the sun, you get spring and summer; when it tilts away, you get fall and winter. God didnt have to do things this way—he could have created our planet with no tilt and thus no seasons. But then regions further from the equator would receive much less sunlight and thus be much less inhabitable. God loves diversity, and wanted us to experience our world from the far north to the far south. ..As a result, He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. C.S. Lewis is right: I am glad its fall, but Im also glad its not always fall. The beauty of each season demonstrates the beauty of the One who created all seasons. ..Now consider this observation from St. Augustine: Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Which is the greater miracle: that the seasons change, or that you have the intellectual and spiritual capacity to enjoy them as they change?(jd)
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:50:51 +0000
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