As I was headed to therapy this morning I went through by Pokety Bridge and then the straight-away before North Landing Bridge. In both places there are no houses or wires, nothing to get in the way of just enjoying the leaves on the trees. I love driving through Pokety, especially when the trees have made a canopy over the road. It’s like a tunnel with dappled light shining through. So cool.
Today I was thinking, lamenting really, that I (we) never take a vacation or go anywhere significant, even though he always says we will. I was thinking about Skyline Drive and what the leaves might be looking like up there; or how glorious it would be to see the covered bridges and scenic drives up north. I’ve always wanted to go there, but from the looks of it, I never will.
I was starting to feel bad about it all when I realized that these trees, full of their now changing colorful leaves, were just exactly like trees most anywhere else. I wonder if anyone ever stops to think about “our” leaves. Our trees deserve a moment’s worth of attention too. The good Lord made them just as surely as he made those other, distant ones. I realized I was missing what I already had by wanting what I didn’t have.
Isn’t that so like us all? We have so much; we take it all for granted. We just want more or other or better. Whatever, as long as it’s beyond our reach we want it. I guess God put us where He wanted us and we should take stock of what we have been given and enjoy each day as if it were our last.
I think I’ll go sit on the deck and watch the leaves fall.
