The kitchen smells so good right now.
The aroma of cinnamon, fruit and sugar coming from the oven makes me want to
stick out my tongue just in case I can actually taste it.
Fresh, ripe plums straight from Val’s
tree and into the oven to make a cake. A birthday cake but also an end of
summer cake. A reminder that there are lovely, beautiful things to enjoy at the
end of the summer holidays. I need the reminder.
My head is only slowly emerging from
the summer sand, to accept the fact that it is very nearly September. I’m right
at the end of the exhale and have no choice but to inhale deeply because a new
season is just around the corner.
So instead of denial, instead of closing
my eyes and waiting for the busyness, the routine, the have-to’s and the
must-do’s to hit, I’m going to be thankful for the fruit of the season and to
try and look forward to the new growing season. To not be so negative and
embrace the fact, that every season has a beginning and an end. Every season
has its own rhythm and special flavour. 
So we’re having plum cake tonight,
remembering that God makes good things grow in every season, that there is more
to look forward to. There will be more fruit and cake of a different variety to
enjoy and be thankful for because God grows fruit, lots of it.
Amen!
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