Snow and More Snow

Can it get any deeper? The photo clearly shows two automobiles – one car and the other a van. However it is with the addition under many inches of snow. This was taken south of where we live – read the words again – south of where we live. Actually it is across Lake Ontario in a New York county of Oswego.

I feel for these people. And more is coming today and tomorrow – believe it or not.

Perhaps for no other reason today this blog is to get you to be happy for what you are facing where you are. It can always be worse.

There are folks that read this blog in south-east Asia that suffer each day with very warm weather. Some have lived in Canada and miss what we have. We wish you were here as well.

It brought my thoughts to what can happen now with what we have. Reading the Bible account of Daniel over has helped me see again what we are capable to do with what we have.

Daniel and others were dragged into captivity to a place called Babylon. This is situated not far from the present day Bagdad, Iraq. Nebuchadnezzar was the man that was in charge and had captured these men. The conditions of Babylon were not like home. They were prisoners in a foreign land – a place that they didn’t like nor want to be. But they made the best of it.

I know that living in a snow belt and being buried in ten feet of snow(in some cases it is nearly 12 feet) can seem impossible to live with – but making the most of it is the way we survive in this area.

Your life is maybe even worse than Daniel and his friends. It may seem worse than the worst snow fall…in that there is no melting of the snow drifts in front of your life. There is no way out of what you face – at least it seems like that is the case.

Remember Daniel was a captive slave. He was never going home. So with that in mind he made the best of what he faced at the moment – and NEVER STOPPED PRAYING. As I have been dwelling on this thought it has helped me to refocus on the task at hand.

In a recent visit to a senior lady I was amazed at the woman’s resilience. After she shared with me her inability she punctuated the statement she made – by saying, “But I can still pray.”

God help us today to face the realities of a storm in our lives – and then deal with the snow banks afterward. God is interested in every detail. Why not talk to him today?

~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~