A Country Kind of Fall

A country kind of fall...oh how I've missed these days. The days of hoodies and jeans. The days filled with warm, glowing homes. The days spent with a hot cup of cocoa and school. The days God gave me. God gives us every single day to bring glory to Him. He wants us to rejoice in the day He has carefully crafted for us! He wants us to find the small beauties and joys of the day, run after the tiny pieces of magical lovelies He left for us to discover. Fall is a time for hayrides with the 4-H group, bonfires with the youth group and loud, crazy, wonderful, sweet, huge dinners with my extended family. Something about fall..I'm not sure what it is that makes life so magical during this time of year...maybe it's the left over flowers trying to still bloom, or perhaps the purifying sheets of rain that fall so quickly, And oh the smell...there's no way to describe it...but the smell of rain in the Fall is just precious to me. The cool breeze the blows and the sound of the trees rustling together. When you stand in the middle of my driveway and look out towards the fields you see beans for miles. Golden rivers of beans and miles of rolling hills and pastures. And with the rain falling it makes every color seem a little brighter. I looked out my window yesterday and saw that the line of walnut trees beside my house was raining leaves. It was beautiful. It continued to rain them steadily for about a minute or two until the last one had fallen to the ground to stay peacefully. In conclusion to my paragraph of Mid-Western Fall loveliness I will now add a list of my
Fall Favorites From Today
1. Waking up at a decent time so I could have breakfast with my parents.
2. Making myself feel clean with a much needed shower.
3. Tidying up my room so I could do school in it.
4. Taking only an hour and a hlaf to do my Chemistry and Spanish.
5. Looking out my window to see rain peacefully falling.
6. Having the nearly uncontainable urge to go to the apple orchard.
7. Having breath in my lungs.
8. Snuggling with my old, chubby cat, Howie.
9. Having homemade soup on the stove with the smell dancing through the air.
10. Taking an evening drive with my sister to town for movies and a run to the bank.
11. Finding out I've (Correction...God has HELPED me) saved more than expected for Drivers Ed.
12. Working on my homecoming dress with my Mama (A close girl friend has taken me the past two years with a group of people:)
13. Hearing the sounds of crickets outside my window.
14. Sitting on my front porch while writing most of this post.
15. Being able to have yet another...country kind of fall. <3
That's all for tonight:) Jesus loves you!
Love,
Hannah Dorothy