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Ye people of Israel saith unto the Lord God, "We are not satiated by mere daily dustings. We desireth deep snow." So the Lord God sent a blizzard and the people's tongues froze in thy mouths because their insolent faces were fillethed with snow.  Starting to feel like the Israelites in the desert who tired of manna and so God sent quail. And they choked on the meat. The pent-up prayers of school children in Pennsylvania for snow days for so long denied "Lord, how long?"  has been answered in full and then some. Summer vacation is going to be a three day weekend. Ye want snow? Choke on this... The advantage is that I believe Central Pa. can put in a credible bid for the Winter Olympics like Sochi, and our water is drinkable and hotel rooms are a lot nicer. And Bob Costas could get better medical treatment for his pink eye rather than two shots of vodka and call me in the morning.     Since I was raised on the mean 1/4 mile driveways of suburbia, I have ...

Walking back to my car after Church, I saw this deceased sparrow on the city brick sidewalk. It made me think of Matthew 10:29 where Jesus is consoling his Disciples that they are not to worry about what man can do to them, because God the Father knows and cares for them and He will not let them fall until His purposes are accomplished for them. It is going to be hard Jesus warns them, but have hope. A hard hope. The harder your hope the more you can handle with grace.   Jesus adds that we are worth much more than many sparrows which would now qualify Him as a "Speciesist"--asserting that humanity has a special place in the Cosmos being made in God's image. That is a wonderful blessing yet also a terrible burden if we are alienated from God. Echoes of Eden, the introduction of Death into the Creation, is shown simply by a sparrow falling to the ground. I wasn't going to go to Church today...I wanted to stay home and just lay around. The winter is wearing me out...