The September of My Years
Friday, October 27, 2023
“Let all thoughts of the future serve to make us useful in the present.” – C.H. Spurgeon
Written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, The September of My Years was the title track on an album of the same name recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1965. The recording was so rich and the lyrics so deliciously haunting that it was nominated for a Grammy as Song of the Year.
Just listen to these words…
One day you turn around, and it’s summer
Next day you turn around, and it’s fall
And the springs and the winters of a lifetime
Whatever happened to them all
As a man, who has always had the wandering ways
Now I’m reaching back for yesterdays
‘Til a long forgotten love appears
And I find that I’m sighing softly as I near
September, the warm September of my years
As a man, who has never paused at wishing wells
Now I’m watching children’s carousels
And their laughter’s music to my ears
And I find, that I’m smiling gently as I near
September, the warm September of my years
The golden warm September of my years
The moral of the story… and the song? Plan for tomorrow, but live today to the fullest, preferably for God. That way, when you look back at your life, you’ll have more accomplishments and fewer regrets.
“Now the days of David drew near that he should die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying: ‘I go the way of all the earth; be strong, therefore, and prove yourself a man’… So David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David. The period that David reigned over Israel was forty years…” I Kings 2:1-2, 10-11 (NKJV)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
