I trust in Nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and Autumn garner to the ends of time.
- Robert Browning
"And God called the dry land Earth;...And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so" ( Genesis 1:11).
"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).
As the pressures of life lean in on us, we do not have to fret that the seedtime and harvest of our year will be disrupted. I believe the bonfires of ancient times were the superstitious caretaking of the people not taking any chances that the night would continue to grow longer, but that the daylight would return so they could plant and reap the harvest. This promise of God is indeed a stabilizing foundation to our year. We can forget about it, as we forget taking our next breath, -- God said it, and it will continue.
(Painting above is Breughel's Harvest)
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