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Change of Season........................................................

Is something we all look forward to! With the vibrant reds, and oranges and yellows, it gives me an extra spring in my step. It makes me want to close my eyes....... as I'm outside, and fully extend my arms out to the wind........It's refreshing, invigorating. Somehow it has a renewing effect, on our body, mind, and souls. It takes us back to yesterday, and almost makes us skip along, to tomorrow.

We stay outside.........a little longer
We take in all the vibrant colors...........
We think of warm sweaters, and hayrides, and football games, and pumpkins, and costumes, and trick or treating, candy apples, and candles and ovens once again filling our homes........with all sorts of home cooked meals and yummy treats... Soup, and cornbread and chili, and cookies and rolls............
We think of cozy blankets
We think of apple cider

I was brought to this thought-- If Autumn is a season of changing and so many of us look forward to it, then why is every other change in our lives looked upon so differently??
Why is there an instant feeling of impending "doom" so to say?
Why must we hold on to change, and not want to release it?
We change our socks everyday, but changing our habits, even if it's our hearts desire, is so very challenging, so effortful?
I wonder as silly as this seems what if we slowly began to look @ change as the expected, the anticapted arrival of the colors of our lives unseen, if we could embrace it? Appreciate it, and savor it like the gentle breeze that this Autumn season brings us? What if change was an opportunity for us to change?