The Portion of my Inheritance

Autumn time in Michigan is magical!

It almost feels like you can reach out and touch the splendor of the Lord as the multiple color of leaves, each brilliant in it’s own right fall softly all around you, dancing and swaying as it’s makes it’s glorious descend to the ground.

Even as a little child I understood the beauty of fall, the magnificence of the change in all it’s glory. I remember many walks to school spent basking in the moment, still framing the gorgeous landscape of the Lord. I remember clearly the wet, misty mornings, stretching my neck back to look up to see the leaves floating down around me. The ditches lay packed, thick and rich with the vibrant colors as the leaves settled there for their final resting place. It’s memory has stayed with me throughout all these years.

It was usually the job of my sister and I, being the two eldest, to rake the multiple leaves into a pile. We would spend an entire afternoon, hours upon hours raking them into a heaping pile, just to spend a few glorious moments jumping into the pile and scattering the leaves all over the place. And then, we would rake them back up into a pile again and our father would set them ablaze and we would end the day with roasting marshmallows.

I can still smell the smells of fall, and feel the crisp, moist air brushing against my face. The colors are so vivid and beautiful within my minds eye, forever pressed deep within my heart. These are sweet, precious memories to me.

Moving to Texas has been a wonderful adventure and our life here has been blessed. But there has always been a forlorn feeling when autumn rolls around. Even though fall in Texas is beautiful, it cannot match the display of grandeur that we had been accustomed to in our early years.

I made my sister this quilt so it would be a constant reminder of that time so long ago and so far away. A simpler time, carefree and filled with beauty. I named the quilt Scattered Leaves.

(yes, they made a mistake in the text. They said I was from Tennessee)

‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.  Leviticus 26:3-4