T-minus two days and counting.
Vacation is almost here, and i can almost focus on my work. Or maybe not. Winter is fast approaching. i watched as a wicked wind blew the last leaves off of the trees in the backyard today. All of the orange, yellows and reds fell from the sky to carpet the earth. Soon all will be white.
i have been thinking a bit about humility and the state of affairs in our household and my life lately. We are exceedingly proud in most all that we do. The kids learn from the parents who were kids that learned from their parents. i am going home soon, well, not home, but to where my parents live. i have struggled much to not be my father, but it happens that you pick up things from your environment. And so little bits of him have slipped in over the years. Not that he was a bad man - a bit distant and a hard man at times (my grandmother and other relatives say that the war changed him a great deal) - but the attributes that made him hard and distant i have struggled to suppress in myself and not replicate.
So i think i will have a chat with him, and then with my wife and children, and we will work out the things that are in us that are fed by pride and that are foolish and cause us to be anything other than what we know Jesus would have us to be.
It's going to be good. The foliage is now past up here, but we are headed south where the foliage will be in its peak. i am not all fond of winter, but i cherish autumn as a season of change for its brilliance and its simplicity.
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