Keep Walking

I love the sound of walking through fallen leaves this time of year.

Crunch crunch.

Swoosh swoosh.

I was taking one of those lovely autumnal walks yesterday when the colors are still vibrant but the leaves are falling all around you.

As I walked and shuffled through the leaves, I recalled a sentiment a friend shared recently about loving the sound of walking away from things that aren't meant for you.

Crunch crunch.

Swoosh swoosh.

Fallen leaves remind us that sometimes, we have to let go.

As I moved through the vivid forest, I thought about how much life has changed and how different things look than they did many years ago.

I thought of God's redemption and how it was just what I needed to let go of things that no longer served me.

I thought of how those experiences and challenges taught me things that became part of the foundation for the steps ahead.

I thought of how God created seasons in our lives and how important it is for us to allow some things to end so other things can begin.

We keep going, all the while having God right next to us, giving us the strength to say goodbye and move forward.

Crunch crunch.

Swoosh swoosh.

Let’s keeping walking my friend.

1 John 2:24-25

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

Isaiah 1: 16-17

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 4: 22-24

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.