Turn Over a New Leaf

Picture a crisp fall morning, it has a cool nip in the air, things have their own unique scent.  You can even smell the sunshine cause its so bright.  Under the old tree in the yard you see that it has lost a good bit of its leaves and you get a bit introspective.  Thinking about the phrase or cliche of “turning over a new leaf,”  you stoop over to pick one of the leaves and think about what you’d like to change about yourself.  You think about it…You ponder… Then you recognize the fundamental thing you need to change and then lay the leaf back down on its other side.  A symbolic gesture of change and apparently a fleeting one as an errant breeze zips through to carry your leaf away.  However now you’re hooked in this little game because – of course – you just didn’t think of just one point of imperfection.  Unfortunately it was a virtual smorgasbord of things you’d like to change in you.  So you find a wind sheltered little nook and begin again; no need to redo the first one – what’s done is done.  You get a few more leave flipped and here comes Mr. Breeze to put things in perspective.  The key is not the physical act.  It’s the knowing of what needs done, and doing the deed.  Who will know what you’ve changed that day?  Everyone will know, and God knows.