This time of year brings the end of my gardening season. This week the first hard frosts descended on our part of Colorado. The tomatoes are done, as well as all the annuals. Leaves litter the yard and their companions wait, poised to join them.

I carry mixed emotions through this season. I love no longer cutting the grass, but I miss warm afternoons on the deck.

So when I read this in 1 Peter this week, my back garden came to mind:

All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.

The top photo features one of our garden beds in July. The bottom photo shows part of the bed in October. The flowers fell.

I’m grateful that with all the constant changes our life brings, at least one thing endures—the word of God.

1 Peter 1 in week forty-one of reading the Bible cover to cover