For Wilshire Baptist Church
The spider lilies are blooming. It’s the first day of fall and we’re having a late, near-record heat wave, and yet the spider lilies have come up in the yard as they do each fall with their red spidery blooms atop their thin, light green stems. They’re confirmation that change is coming. Cooler weather will be on our doorstep soon.
When I was younger, I looked for signs of fall in other places, but they don’t seem as reliable as they once were. In my memory it was always cooler when school started, but the high schoolers who walk through our neighborhood to school have had to endure temperatures near 100. Football is the ultimate fall sport, and yet last weekend we almost burst into flame under a blazing midday sun as we watched our team. But the spider lilies? They’re the real deal; they know what’s going on.
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