What is most meaningful about autumn is harvest season. The sense of culmination of growth with the fruits/veggies coming in from the fields is a celebratory feeling.
Harvest took on a new theologcial meaning for me the October of 1992. My grandfather a lifelong farmer was harvesting his crops when he died suddenly. His death was a shock and surprise. At 70 plus he was a spry guy! But his death was not devastating because God harvested him- and brought him home to his eternal reward and rest.
Ever since that experience I have some to think of death as a harvest... and the good ol' hymn Bringing in the Sheaves hums through my mind. God simply gathers into the heavenly barn those who are 'ripe' for the picking!
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