Impermanence ~

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Bronte

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the poem in its entirety

can be found

here 

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wishing you a new

 month of thanks-giving

as we bid farewell

to October

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O give thanks unto the LORD,

 for [he is] good:

 for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Psalm 107:1

Most Assuredly ~

assuredly

 the grass withers

the word of the Lord

stands forever

1 Peter 1:24-25

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I have always looked upon decay

 as being just as wonderful and

 rich an expression of

 life as growth.

Henry Miller

1891-1980

Beauty & Decay ~

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"It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful.
The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things."

 St. Francis of Assisi

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