after being back out West now for a month and a 1/2, the winter has started to wear on me. the snow. the bitter cold. the lack of flip-flop wearing.
but Paul keeps reminding me that it’s just God’s grace. what?? I think I probably rolled my eyes at that comment the first 5 times or so that he’s said it. :P
I mean, he might have a point…I suppose. God has created the earth with just the right levels of nitrogen and oxygen and whatever else so that we can live. He’s tilted the earth at just the right angle to the sun so that we don’t burn up and we don’t freeze over.
he reasons that anything between –20 deg F and 120 deg F is just God’s grace – it’s not cold enough to freeze us to death and not hot enough to burn us to death.
an overly-excited exclamation of, “Wow, isn’t this great?? Just another taste of God’s grace!!” is not really something you want to hear when you’re running to the car in bitter cold wind and snow. it’s not really something you want to hear when you’re staring out the window at the snow, daydreaming about being home on the beach. BUT – I’m starting to learn to just embrace it. and not complain.
because, after all – I got to go home to the Keys for a month and a 1/2 this winter. :)
and it’s true. God’s grace can be seen (and felt) even in the weather.
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