Of Leaves and Patience

Fall is slow to come here in Williamsburg. I feel like I'm stuck in some sort of time suspension because it's October, but it feels like early September. The trees are mostly green, there are all sorts of flowers, and this week the temperature topped 80 degrees. Great running and biking weather, but I'm still itching to rake some leaves.

The season has emphasized a lesson for me, though. As the scenery turns ever so slowly to red, yellow, orange, and brown, it reminds me that things often change more slowly than I expect them to. Or more slowly than I want them to. Or not quite in the manner I hoped for. I'm reminded also that the Lord works "in process of time" (Moses 7:21) and that He will "order all things for [my] good, as fast as [I] am able to receive them" (D&C 111:11).

So I'm trying to be patient and enjoy the leaves that have dressed up for fall. (And I'm enjoying the excuse to play outside as much as I can.)