Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Cheryl Boardman
Monday, September 30, 2024
I saw this pile of strange and wonderful pumpkins and squash just outside my local grocery store today (Sept 29,2024). There was such a variety to choose from!
Fall is definitely here. The temperatures are dropping, the sun is setting earlier and people are harvesting produce from their gardens and orchards. September is turning into October this week! Where has the time gone? The man I talked to at a local farmer’s market this morning thought that he might have tomatoes for a couple more weeks, which is when the farmer’s market closes for the year.
I thought that these Bible verses about planting and harvesting, which describe going forward after the biblical flood, when Noah and his family had left the ark and the land had started to dry up, to be very interesting since they still apply today.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things. As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
Genesis 8:20-22 (NLT)