Autumn has arrived on the calendar, but here in Texas, it’s still Summer … I saw pumpkins outside my grocery store today literally getting sunburned! I feel like Rapunzel needing to let down my long hair, but it’s just too hot to do that.

This is my favorite time of year because now until the end of the year, it’s full of football, festivals (Oktoberfest, the State Fair of Texas, etc.), celebrations (homecomings, my birthday, Halloween/Harvest, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the New Year) and the  temperature loses its oppressive heat and eventually, slowly becomes comfortable. Waiting for that to happen is the hard part. (I have written before on social media that I was having trouble waiting for things to happen. It’s true. Tom Petty was right when he sang, “The waiting is the hardest part.” It really is, but we can get through it, and it is often worth the wait.)

I love seasons because when one becomes too much to deal with or boring, you know a change will most definitely be coming (unless you live in a place like Southern California where it is warm year-round — or at least it was the semester I was in graduate school there … I was rummaging on Thanksgiving Day to find a sleeveless shirt to wear in the 90-degree heat while eating my turkey dinner. That was not fun for me!)

My former pastor where I lived outside Nashville once said, “Some people are seasonal people, and some people are meant to be in your life for the long-term.” At the time, that statement hurt me. I realize now, more than two decades later, that I wasn’t hurt. I was offended — that’s much worse in my book because being offended is a choice we each make. In the last 20 years, I’ve watched the revolving door of people walk in and out of my life. Some of them were supposed to be forever friends and family. I had to learn the hard lesson that even those you love the most and are closest to can choose to leave. When this happens, it causes change. These changes can be difficult, but they don’t have to be.

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