Change of Seasons- Looking closer

Photo Randy Vanderveen Frost covers the head of foxtail on a cold October morning. In Canada, Thanksgiving is just around the corner — Monday Oct. 12.

While it is just a day, it seems that often it marks the move from early fall when the leaves have colour on them and there is just a light frost to late fall when the leaves drop off the trees and frost is a common occurrence most mornings.

Those changes are inevitable as native plants become dormant for the winter and rest until spring's arrival.

That change can often mean the landscape begins to look drab as the trees are bare and the vegetation like grass is brown until the arrival of snow that stays, which in the Peace Country could be anytime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

However, by looking closer one can often see beauty of a different kind as frost coats grassy stalks or blankets the car windows leaving an abstract design. Those things can provide new material for photographs.

The same is true in life. This week friends of ours, Darren and Christine Andres and their two children Corban and Regan move to Regina.

While the move could be looked upon as a sad moment, it isn't. Darren, the former youth pastor at our church, will be pastor of adult ministries at a Regina church.

We also know it is where God is leading them as a family and although they won't be in Grande Prairie anymore, we know that they will be doing what they are supposed to and will be meeting new friends, building new relationships and growing as a young family.

In some ways they will be going through two seasons in life at once. The move from the familiar in Grande Prairie to a time of growth in a new community in Regina.

God bless you Darren, Christine, Corban and Regan. It has been great getting to know you and seeing the two of you grow from singles, to a couple to a family. We will miss you.