Appreciation of Harvest

So tonight I was visiting a family from the church in the village I live in, Sendreni, and they were in the middle of shucking corn for animal feed from the corn stocks. So Simina and I (Simina is the woman I live with and work with), started to help them! The piles were huge!! We worked and worked pulling the ears from the stocks and  stacking the empty stocks. I probably only worked for 30 minutes because it was getting dark and goodness it was a lot of work!! They do all this by hand!! Crazy!! In return they gave us a beautiful pumpkin!! I'm so excited to carve it, bake the seeds and make pumpkin bread, cookies and other pumpkiny things from it!!! I love fall and I am glad I get to experience it in this village!! Needless to say I am grateful for the generosity and hard work of those who harvest their crops. I'm also in appreciation of the provision God gives us. All the varieties of fruit and vegetables that he provides us with. It really is amazing. I have been reading in Genesis lately and I read the creation story and this just puts it into perspective even more. I am so grateful we have a loving God who provides for us. He is the almighty.

[ps I will post pictures of my pumpkin creations]