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Story Behind the Song

What was I thinking when I wrote this song? And why call it Octobers? Well, when I composed it, my piano was below my office window, and as I played, the sun was shining through the trees in my front yard and onto my face. The gold and yellow leaves were beginning to fall, and I began contemplating the seasons as notes began to flow from my fingers into a new song. 

It seemed fitting. The music rang and my mind wandered. 

I reflected on the seasons of life; on the ebb and flow of change, knowing these leaves would all too soon gently release from her branches and her limbs would remain bare for a season. I conteplated our individual reasons to anticipate the resurrection and how symbolically new buds would form, leaves would once again fill her branches and the trees would be restored as before.   

To me, Octobers is a reminder that though winter will inevitably come, we need not fear. Just as the changing seasons, God has provided all things for us long ago and given us hope through Jesus Christ in our darkest days. He fulfills his promises

 time and time again with the newness and hope of spring and the warmth and reassurance of summer. 

Though anticipated – and unanticipated – challenges come, and we often feel apprehension of what lay ahead, we can be reassured that in mortality “this too shall pass”. Jesus makes it so. All things – and us – shall be made whole.

Through our falls and winters, we can find gratitude for the seasons and lessons learned while keeping our eyes fixed on Him, for the springs and summers to come and find glimpses of joy even during darker days. 

And if we find ourselves contemplative in the middle of an October, we can anticipate with the hope that all will be well.