As the days get shorter and nights get longer, as the temperature gets colder and the wind gets chiller, there is much that is changing when I glance over the beautiful foliage of trees that transcend the landscape. I see reds, oranges, yellows and mixtures of both. I love the color change.
What is actually happening in the leaves is that the plant needs to save energy and supplies to survive winter. The color change isn’t because a new color is appearing, it actually is that the colors/pigments which already exist in the leaves get to come out. They were just are over shadowed by chlorophyll which is what makes leaves green. When the plant needs to save the chlorophyll for the next season of growth it shuts it down. While doing that the other pigments living in the leaves come forth. Changing the existence of chlorophyll helps us see the other colors hiding behind.
The change is inevitable to save the plant for the winter so it can bloom in the spring.
When we have changes in our own lives we most likely don’t like them. They make us different and expose different colors inside of us that we didn’t know existed. So why do we look at these changes as bad. Do we look at the fall leaves and say,
“How ugly the change is” or “I wish it would just stay green.”
I highly doubt it!
Most of us would agree that having change in the seasons helps us recognize where we have come from and focus on where we are heading too. No one would have ever seen the brilliant reds, oranges, yellow, and even purples on the trees if the tree didn’t decide to shut down the chlorophyll and storing it away.
If something has been taken away from you in your life that has led to an unexpected change, maybe it is one you gladly welcome, but more than likely it is one that you absolutely did not want to happen. Remember from what has been taken away beautiful colors that you didn’t know existed will shine through.
Change is inevitable!
Change is ironically constant.
Don’t be afraid of change because it truly can show the world how beautiful you are from the inside.
