Beauty in Adversity

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven
                ...He has made everything beautiful in its time
                                          Ecclesiates 3:1,11

Autumn beauty blazes bright across the rolling hills:
golds and reds and mauve and rust from every hillside spill.
In awe we watch them as they grow more beautiful every day, 
scarcely mindful of the things that make them turn that way.
No gentle breeze or warming sun has made the scene we see,
but chilling winds and shortened days bring colors to the trees.
Adversity is what it takes to show them at their best,
for now, with colors so diverse, each stands out from the rest.
So may it be in my own like, in each adversity,
that others, looking on my plight, God’s beauty there may see.

Glenda Collins Inman