Realization

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

--Rainer Maria Rilke

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"Happy art thou, O holy Virgin Mary, and of all high praise most worthy;  for out of thee hath risen the sun of justice, Christ our God." 
--from the Mass of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

September sun

"Happily we bask in this warm September sun,
Which illuminates all creatures..."
-- Henry David Thoreau 

Late summer

"A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year."
  --William Longgood

Behold

"Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?"

--Saint Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 26

September days

"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer."
--Helen Hunt Jackson, September, 1830-1885

So swift

Autumn to winter, winter into spring.
Spring, into summer, summer into fall,
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
--Dinah Mulock Craik