This has been our reality for about 3 weeks. It is what happens here in the PNW and that's fine. What isn't is that we were promised a winter like no other. I think the rest of the States has received its wintery reality...we on the other hand have been promised, forewarned about what hasn't happened. We still might as February and March are still ahead but I think we are in for much of the same. I am not complaining much except I like weather...weather that makes a statement, thunder storms, blizzards etc. Here we do really good with temperate...that mellow in the middle of extremes. Since we have this new wonderful wood stove I was ready for the hunkering down watching the snow swirl its crazy patterns outside the window. Not so much hunkering down...but we have been warm in all this dampness.
You know...it's much like life. Most we live in the middle of extremes moving gently from the mundane to the ordinary. We prepare for those times with insurance and proactive living but once in awhile it comes with no warning, the storm what threatens to undo all that we have anticipated. This is what I want to teach these students of mine about their faith. There will be storms and those that can destroy most completely are the ones filled with betrayal, loss and fear. If you have walked with Jesus in the normal, mundane and ordinary days...you will be able to hunker well when the storms come. Unlike our weather forecasters...there will be hunkering days ahead, walk well in the normal.
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Good word,Heidi! "Faithful in little, then faithful in much!" --- the house needs to be built on the Rock in preparation for the storms of life --- the 10 virgins and their oil supply ---its good solid biblical Truth. We need to say it - but also live it, so that when others face their sudden storms, they will know that we can provide encouragement because we have been there. - lew
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