Snow Day!

     It was as if a gift was handed to me today, all wrapped up in snow. I love having Mondays off. Three day weekends are awesome! I will never complain about having an unexpected day off, though I do think it is a bit ridiculous how crazy people get around here when it snows. It is winter in New England...what do you expect? So many people act  like snow is a foreign thing here, as if we lived in Florida where the temps never drop below fifty degrees. New England means changing weather every few minutes. It means rain, snow, ice, and uncertainty. It means you need snow, or all season tires on your car. It means driving properly when you are out on icy roads, such as picking up speed when you climb a hill so you can make it up, while slowing down around corners and taking it easy on the highway. Snow does not mean you have to panic. It does not mean you have to run to the store and clear off the shelves of bread, toilet paper, and milk. Snow will not last forever. I am sure if you looked around your pantry you would find enough food in your house to last for a day. Granted, last year we had an out of the ordinary event occur, when we had three feet of snow dump on us in one night. In all my thirty-eight years of life, I have never seen that before and I have a feeling I never will again. I could be wrong - actually, I hope I am wrong. That was awesome, tiring to shovel, but awesome! 

     I know, I hear many of you saying it must be the fact that I am from Vermont and snow was a daily part of my life. I am used to it and it must be in my blood. I can remember it snowing every day. We would wait for the bus in our snow pants and boots, sometimes actually play in it and have snowball fights, and other days we would huddle in the bus stop shelter and wait an hour or more as our toes froze in the cold. The bus would come creaking down the road, chains on the tires rattling eerily as it drove over the snow covered dirt roads. I can even recall one time when the bus went off the road and we were all allowed to get off and we kept warm in a nearby house where one of the kids lived. So, yes, what I see outside was just a normal part of my life growing up. Nothing really has changed, except for the people and what they believe. This whole global warming idea, whether you believe it or not, has affected us to a point where we sub consciously think the world is getting warmer and we should be getting less snow.  "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Gen 8:22 

     No matter what man thinks or says, I am glad to know my God is in control of the weather and that no matter what happens, seasons will continue to come and go until He says it is done. Pretty much until the end of time, like in Revelation. You do not have to like the cold and the snow, but at least teach your children that God is good, and that we do not have to be paranoid about the weather outside our door. We need to teach our children that God is still in control; that He is still worth trusting because He created this beautiful earth. Besides, isn't it a good time for all to gather together inside the house and have family time together? Drink hot chocolate and bake cookies together...speaking of that, I think I am going to go put the kettle on right now and warm up some water for hot chocolate. Care to join me?  

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