our happy little street

i intend to document the coming of fall.

this is our street about a week ago:

and there's gunther, too.
(he's my handsome car)

so green and lush.

but autumn is coming. about a week and a half ago, as i was walking to school i heard the most strangely familiar sound. it was dry leaves scuttling across the parking lot. they make the most delightful noise.
that's when i knew fall was coming for sure.


on another note, something i've been thinking about recently is the fact that we shouldn't spend our lives looking at the ground. this came to me when i was walking home from school on the glorious day on which the above pictures were taken. i realized that my whole trip to and from school was spent looking at the ground. but why? when i decided to look up at the huge trees and the sunlight and the beautiful sky and the people passing me, the walk home was so much more enjoyable.
we can spend life like that too: looking at the next step, but not getting the big picture. God has all the little details worked out, and "he will not let your foot slip". we forget to look at the big plan that God has for our life- to look at the the grace that he's given and the beauty of his sovereignty. then the walk through life becomes drab and ordinary, or even stressful or depressing.
it's when we focus on ourselves, and get distracted about what WE have to do and what WE have to accomplish that we lose sight of the beauty of the life that we have in Christ.

kinda obvious analogy, but it's just something i thought of the other day.