I woke up on Monday morning expecting to feel it was September, but I didn’t. Maybe it was because of the weather man telling us we would have temperatures ranging from 90 to 100 this week! Usually I feel the air is softer somehow and the twilight is dreamy. but I guess our virus has changed everything! I’m still staying home from church and have been since March 11th when we all began to deal with that awful virus. So,maybe September isn’t the same this year.

I have always  loved September. I held my third baby boy in my arms that month. My two first babies died when they were born and they were full term too. The doctor said the first baby had taken his first breath before he died. But in September James Alan came into our lives. I’ve had 3 more babies in other months, July, August and June, but September was different, special somehow.

However, it is September. I began to feel it as I sat on my renewed porch, looking out at my pond and the many tall fir and big maple trees around me. Here comes Mrs. Squirrel for her evening drink. Oh, and two tiny birds just arrived. They were thirsty too. The sun is still shining but way up high in the trees,  making paths of orange lights among the branches. It is soon night. There is a family of raccoons around here too. One day recently a baby raccoon was carried into the house by our cat, Blazer. My son took the baby outside. I hope the baby ‘s mama soon finds him. He seemed to be in good shape. It’s completely dark now but I don’t want to go in yet. I feel so comfortable sitting here. I’m not alone. God is with me.

Soon I’ll be watching that beautiful V up in the sky as the geese fly to a warmer place to live. But they will be back in springtime. And I’ll be looking at that beautiful big orange harvest moon too! That’s worth waiting for.

Maybe it would be best if all of us would look at the changes we soon will see in nature. After all, God is at work and He still loves us. That is better to think about than that virus, don’t you think? Have a great September.

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.Have you ever found that you have the strength to do something you never thought possible? It happens once in awhile and you may wonder how you did it.

My uncle had surgery many years ago but Mom never forgot what happened that day. Mom and Dad were visiting him in the hospital and his room still smelled awful of ether. Mom was talking to her brother when she heard a thump.She turned around and found Dad had passed out  and landed with his head against the hot radiator. She was eight months pregnant, but she knew she had to move him to a safer place, So she picked him up and carried him to a chair! She always wondered how she did that.

I have had a similar experience. My husband, Frank, was retreating an envelope from the garbage when he fell and broke his hip. All I could think about at that time was that I had to get him into the house. Now I am a rather small woman and Frank was a six foot man. but I picked him up and carried him to a chair inside the house. How in the world did I do that? The kids don’t seem to care about that, but they say, “Why didn’t you use your head and call 911?” I don’t know why anymore than why Mom didn’t call a nurse! But we both had the strength to do what we thought was best.

God knows everything about us from birth to death. The Bible even tells us that he cared us even before birth. So when strength is needed, he provides. Remember that He loves us very much. That is important to know in this time of waiting, waiting for what, we don’t know. Everything is so mixed up and we don’t know how to fix it. I know! Just keep trusting God. He knows the plan and will make everything okay. We have prayed haven’t we? If you haven’t prayed, shame on you. Just ask him to fix America and get rid of this virus, and he will provide. Even when there should have been a better way for Mom and I,  God provided the strength we needed.