Sounds of Hope

What's not to love about Autumn? I thank God daily. I'm especially thankful in the Fall of the year because I live in one of the most visually stunning places on the planet...the Appalachian Mountains. Having lived away from my hometown for the better part of nine years, I don't think I take for granted the annual picturesque moments when the leaves change colors. A simple Saturday afternoon drive with the windows down taking in the vibrant colors and crisp air of late October is the best therapy I know. My head becomes flooded with memories for long ago, as well as, not so long ago. Fall means football! A sport that has been a part of my life in some fashion for over forty years. I started playing the game on an organized level when I was only five years old. Today, my Thursday through Monday has an element of football involved at some point in the day from September until January. I love it! Fall means harvesting. As the growing season winds down, the...

My name is Andrea York and I want to be a trophy wife. Every Wednesday, I join Joyce and the other Kingdom Bloggers on Wednesday for a weekly commentary of various topics and I write regularly about kingdom living on my own blog, Write Down the Revelation .  ******* More than January, September has been the truer ‘fresh start’ for me. Whether or not, you are governed by the school year September promises new things. New school supplies (for my Boy), new clothes (also for my Boy), new classes & programs through the Parks & Recreation board and new ministries at church. I see friends that I haven’t seen during the summer because our kids are busy in 10 different directions. Churches are full once again (or not) after people have returned back from their cabins/cottages and RV trips. After 10 months of routine, I look forward to summer for less structure but being a fairly structured and organized person, two months is about all I can take without yearning for order a...

Fall is my favorite time of the year.   I love Fall.   Here in the south, it comes late.   But it does come…   I look forward to the temperature dropping a bit.   I love the crinkle of crisp leaves under my feet.    If I weren’t so old I’d find a pile of leaves and dive in. All this week you are in for a special treat - Kingdom Bloggers are visiting and we are talking about Fall.  In Brooklyn, like everywhere, Fall meant back to school.   We always started a week or so after Labor Day.   It was time to buy new black and white composition notebooks.   I still love to hold a new composition notebook in my hands.   All those crisp lined white pages to fill with new ideas and assignments, it’s exciting!   How handy, the back of the book had a ruler, all sorts of cheats for math, and the multiplication tables.   I need those!   Soon there would be books to cover with paper bags.   Or perhaps I could convince m...

White Mountains, NH  Every year I make a trek to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and another to Cape Cod, MA some time during the fall. As a life-long New Englander, although the season of "colors" brings and end to summer; to the hazy, hot and humid days with temperatures approaching 100, there is something wonderful about the crisp morning air of an October morning. The week the roaming Kingdom Bloggers are writing about fall. As residents of the northern hemisphere, the warm days of summer are coming to a close; air conditioners switched off, fans packed in the attic, and days beckoning a walk among the hardwoods - yes, fall is nearly upon us. I have traveled quite extensively over the years. I have racked up 42 US states along with about 40 national and state parks, as well as 13 countries - with more on my radar. For nearly 4 months in 1989 I drove across the US (and a bit in Canada and Mexico). It was...