Follow the Process of Nature to Start Preparing Now for Your Spiritual Winter -- Some time ago as I was engulfed by the beauty of the Fall foliage, I began looking toward Winter and asking God why the Fall was so beautiful when it was merely the precursor to the dormancy of Winter. God began speaking to me about rest; the beauty of entering a place of rest.  He analogized the natural process of the changing of the leaves with the spiritual process of finding our rest in Him. Both require preparation in the Spring and Summer.