Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell The Artist Summer has past and each morning in New England brings a new display of art. Places along the road one drives by each day without arousing any attention at all suddenly jump out in the new morning light demanding we take note of their autumn beauty. It is as if some giant wandered about during the night with buckets of orange, yellow and red paint whimsically splashing it over bushes and trees. I know he must have been roaming from west to east because last evening he carelessly spilled some of his color across the western sky and this morning as he exited to the east he decorating the dawn. He is a gifted soul. Whenever I splash paint it appears to be a mess but when this artist slings his hues masterpieces appear. It is with sadness that I enjoy his work because it is so fleeting and temporary. His work on the trees will last for a week or so but his work on the dawn will change in the blinking of my eye. I do not even have time to gather loved ones to see what he has done before it fades into the blue of the day. It is obvious from the lack of scriptural references to the stunning beauty of autumn the prophets and psalmists of old did not live in a place where the hillsides turned flaming red and warm orange. There is so much poetry in the pages of our Bibles one knows David would have been rhapsodic could he have spent an October in Massachusetts. His pen would have declared the glory of God not only from the stars that decorate our heavens but also from the curvaceous hills of New Hampshire and the water filled valleys of Connecticut. What a grand world we have been given. Each place I have lived has had its own particular style declaring, "This is my Father's world…All nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres. Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas, His hand the wonders wrought." I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is hrb1@tiac.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives