Around the Corner.

Its starting. Its insanely early and unfortunately abrupt. But its starting all the same.

Today I saw my first colored leaf. Yes. It was red. Well, half red. Half yellow-green. But it was turning all the same.

Fall is my favorite season of the four. It's wondrous and full of excitement and splendor. It makes me pensive and question and eager. But this time, it makes my heart a little sad.

See, fall always marks the beginning of a new school year. When in school I only slightly mourned the ending of summer because it meant I got to buy notebooks and pencils and new books and, on special occasions, new bookshelves to hold them all. But this year is different. While most of my friends return back to school, I'm not. I'm waiting this year before grad school and I believe, right now, it's God purpose for me. Its a season. It will pass.

But I just want to go to school now. Now now now. I could pack today and be there in the morning. I would, too, if they would let me. If He intended it. But I'm waiting. And waiting is hard when your favorite season, just around the corner, is missing your favorite thing. What would summer be without the lake? Or winter without Christmas? Or spring without new buds on trees? Well, what's fall without school? Sigh, I guess I'm about to find out. This much I know: Pumpkin Spice Lattes, though they rank as my number seven favorite thing about fall, simply won't cut it this time.