Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know Lord, You are the Creator – so YOU know that Autumn arrives on Saturday, according to several of the calendars hanging around here. Several friends have mentioned that, to them, it’s a yearly relief from those muggy mid-nineties that THEY have had, and now the cool breeze is inviting them, and maybe us, outside because the sun no longer seems so hot and angry.

You know that we probably all grow a little weary of each season toward its end, but the beginning of every NEW season always brings renewed hope. You noticed that in the first days of summer, we bypass...