Thanksgiving is nearly here, and it would seem the cold weather has finally decided to move in, at least here in Tennessee. Just the other day, I was standing outside watching a large tree as it was raining its leaves down on the ground. It wasn’t particularly windy, and I was just standing there, watching, as the colorless leaves broke away from the tree that once gave them life. Initially, I was just standing there enjoying the autumn scenery, but as I watched what must have been 100 leaves fall from this tree in a very short amount of time, the image began to take on a new meaning. Suddenly, instead of leaves falling away from a tree, I started to see “believers” falling away from God. People disconnecting from their life source and were now simply falling to the ground. I knew that the thought didn’t come from me, because that just isn’t really the way that my mind typically works, but nonetheless, here I was staring at a tree and thinking about how so many people were falling away from their Lord and Savior.