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Use what the World Gives You

Author
  • Shauna Niequist
Categories (2)
  • Worldview and Perspective
  • Life on Planet Earth
Illiustration Categories
  • Analogies
Keywords (10)
  • Gratitude
  • Natural Resources
  • Natural World
  • Harvest
  • Provision
Scripture (6)
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1–2
  • Leviticus 23:39–41
  • Ruth 2:2–3
  • Galatians 6:9
  • John 4:35–36
Date Added
  • Aug 13, 2025

Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they…

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