Not Too Soon

The arching jet stream will begin to dig deeper into the arctic climes, pulling a knifey chill southward, sending the signal of fall change
Too Soon
The first days of school begin to blend into a circadian rhythm of repetition and the years will have passed while unknowingly memories form and remain behind
Too Soon
The outerwear of colorful leaves will give way to the bark covered remnants of the green sentinels of the past and easier times
Too Soon
The peaceful white streaked blue of summer skies communicating their warmth and hope will morph into the cold blue and foreboding gray of winter skies
Too Soon
The long months of three seasons will yield to the fourth before all which was previously resolved is done
Too Soon
I will have completed another life year before accomplishing all I aspired to and was called to do before it began
Too soon
Do I fall back to old, uninspired and wrongful ways, of which neither I nor He desired that I continue
Too soon
Do I step back from the challenge of living “in” the world and the call to not be ”of“ it
Too Soon
Do I disregard the consequences of my actions, reactions, influence, and effect on the lives of others
And So: Not Too Soon

 I will need to leave the easy times of the three seasons of my life and focus on living better the fourth...bringing all the rest, the peace, the learning, the grace, of my warmer times into the cold...in order that I do not merely get through the difficult seasons of my life, but use all the spiritual energy I have built up and developed to help warm those already in my life and the neighbors I meet to face the cold

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