One Single Red Leaf

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One Single Red Leaf

 

I was walking out my door yesterday when a strong gust of wind blew something

into my face. Getting over the shock I pulled it off of my glasses. It was

single red leaf that had got taken for a ride on that windy September day. I

held this messenger of Fall in my hand and looked At it closely. It looked like

it had lived its life well.

 

It probably had first popped out on a cold April morning giving the first hope

of Spring to some Winter weary soul who saw it.

 

It must have given shelter to singing birds and shade to tired children too.

From the holes in it I would guess that it gave more than one meal to a hungry

insect during the hot Summer months.

 

Now it was ending its life at its most beautiful with its radiant red adding to

the glorious painting from God that covers the mountains during Autumn here. I

knew too that its work wasn't done yet, because in death it would return to the

soil and help God to bring about new life next Spring.

 

My little leaf reminded me too of all the good I can do in my own short life

here. If one, red leaf can do so much for this world then how much more can one

human life do? I am going to do my best then to live my own life well. I am

going to do all I can to give hope to the weary, to comfort the tired, and to

feed those with hungry hearts. I am going to try and live so that my last days

are my most beautiful: full of the colours of love, joy, and oneness with God.

 

Remember you may just be one leaf in this world's mighty forest, but without

your love and your life the forest is less. Remember too that tomorrow is

another chance to live, to learn, to laugh, and to love in this world. Do your

best then. Share your beauty. Help others. Commit yourself to life before death

as well as to life after death.

 

God didn't put you here just to hang on a tree. God put you here to live well

and colour this world with the light of your soul. God put you here to help make

this world a better and more beautiful place for those who will follow.