![]() "October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup."Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!" - Humbert Wolfe, "Autumn Resignation".Even on cloudy days its presence helps to dispel the gloom." - John Burroughs "In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp."I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers." - Leif Enger, Peace Like a River.The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter." - Carol Bishop Hipps ![]() "Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October." - Peggy Toney Horton.“We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.” - Mark Perlberg.The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Now I can see other things-crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. I had been thinking of the winter as a horrid wet, dreary time fit only for professional football. I suppose I had forgotten what it was really like. "Yet, I can face the winter with calm.They made me believe in miracles." - Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray before it finally decided to snow." - Katherine Arden, Small Spaces There was something sad and beautiful about it-the ending and beginning of things." - Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again." - Hal Borlan, This Hill, This Valley "October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen.Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her." - Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. "After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth.The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch.Withdrawing into my own world, blocking out everything except the beauty of the season, my reflections, and my relationship with God, I find that this is enough to sustain me through the long cold winter, and beyond…" - Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” - Avijeet Das “Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha the mountains echo in the background."My beloved October has returned-with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year." - Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling."In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening-no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air." - Alexander Smith."There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." - Nathaniel Hawthorne.Copy the letter onto the cardstock or cardboard, leaving space to tape or glue the candy bars in their places.We are thankful to have you! We wouldn’t trade you for and you bring us of ! We are grateful your kind words and encouragement when we’re in a and you bless us to with your sermons and friendship! We appreciate you to the and back! Here’s an example with the candy bar names in : On a separate piece of paper, write a first draft using the names of the candy bars you bought at the store.Find or purchase a large piece of cardstock paper or cardboard that you can write on with a marker.It’s helpful if the names of the candy bars can be used in multiple ways (you’ll be really good at this if you can think of puns quickly!) Visit your local grocery store and pick up anywhere from 3-10 candy bars.October is Pastor Appreciation month! Here’s a sweet idea from RoseKidz that you and the kids or grandkids can use to show your pastors they’re cared for! Giant Candy Bar Card
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