Tea Time

Fall is here for sure!!!

Today as I drove my daughter to school I delighted in the bright apples hanging like gigantic candies on the trees...so many different shades of red, so brilliant against the green leaves. Oh how I love living amidst the orchards and vineyards and mountains. I feel simply spoiled to see such incredible beauty on a daily basis.

These days the apple pickers are busy bringing in the harvest and bit by bit my lush landscape will turn to brown and grey. Sigh. So I make tea and enjoy cuddling into bed with the warm brew and my laptop. The shorter days have begun. I am glad that there are still apples on the trees outside my bedroom window and the sky just peeks out between the leafy branches. Changing seasons...

My "housemates" of the past six months are moving out this weekend! It has been such a precious thing to have my niece and her family living with me. Oh the fun of hearing those happy voices from the kitchen, smelling the delicious aromas that fill the house as exotic meals are cooked up and watching the little people play around the house and yard. God's goodness to me in a quieter season of my life. Now I will trust Him to fill my life and hopefully my home with new experiences and people.

I've begun teaching at the school but it has been a disorganized start. My desk disappeared so I'm feeling a bit lost trying to set up my workstation in other areas. I need to go out desk hunting so that I can feel more settled as I work with the kids. There is so much need and I feel overwhelmed knowing that I can only do so much. I'm grateful that God will be there working alongside me and giving wisdom. It's such a responsibility and privilege to have one on one time with these kids to speak value into their lives and to help them gain the basic necessity of reading. Oh how some of them struggle. I admire their courage and am grateful to be a small part of their lives for this season. May God use me to bless them I pray...