To Much WHITE STUFF!!!

Well, here we are again...stuck in the snow! Have had over 60inches of snow this season...4 new inches overnight. Wednesday the temps were about -25 and even school was cancelled! So this is a typical Wisconsin winter! We had it easy the first couple of years here...broke us in...what is the mesquito situation going to be like this year??? Makes me wonder....don't even go there!

The first snow is always so nice to see. All clean, and crisp! Everything here turns white...and when the heavy frost hits you can see each detail on the trees. Spectacular! We experienced our first ice storms, and freezing fog this year! Wow is that ever a scary event! Can't see anything more than 10 feet in front of you! But when all is said and done, it leaves a beautiful landscape. Changes the texture of everything! The thing I missed these last few days are the birds...they took to their warm nests. But they are back today, feeding and chirping...getting ready for the next round of snow later today.

I seems to me that in our busy pace of life we get in such a mode of moving that winter is just an interruption! I truly believe that God gave us winter to hibernate with the rest of the world! The earth is resting under a thick blanket of snow, most animals move at a slower pace, and in the spring the new life bursts forth with such exuberance that it can be blinding sometimes! Maybe that is what God intended for us humans as well. After a restful winter to burst forth with such joy and enthuiasm that we put all other creation to shame! But in these fast paced days, that is not the case. We just keep plodding along, fighting the slowdown and wind up exhausted not exuberant, joyless instead of joyful and less than enthuisastic about life! Maybe we should all just slow down, take a deep breath and stop fighting what out bodies and our spirits are trying to tell us...this is a time for rest before the work...a time where the roots go deep and take nourishment from unknown resources...or known if you are in relationship with the God of the Universe!

So, I choose not to be lazy, but not to be so busy as to miss this time of rest...I am anticipating New things to grow in the spring...and I believe energy will be needed to susustain that growth!

I choose to rest in my Creators design for me...to prepare myself for the new that is coming!

To quote a Christmas Sone...'GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN..."
Susi