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Winter - it does come to an end

Around wher I live you just can't make people happy. It rains too much, it's too hot, it's too cold, it doesn't rain enough. In late January there was 60-70 degree weather. It was beautiful. We had a little rain, no snow or ice. And people were complaining that there was no snow. We have had three straight weeks of sub-freezing weather and some snow. Now everyone is complaining that it's too cold. A few years ago I remember a Spring that it rained 4 out of 7 days a week for several weeks. Too much rain. Then in the summer no rain for 3 or 4 weeks... it's too dry. Come on people! It all has consequences! The warm weather we had with the rain... the water just runs off. Sorry this is such a rant. It's the weather. Just wait around long enough and it will change. Stop complaining about what you have no control over and make the best of the situation. When you are snowed/rained in... take some time and play a game with the family. When it is nice out get out and be a part of the world. Verse for today: Job 38:22-38, ESV Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth? “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man, to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass? “Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven? The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth [2] in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children? Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth? “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you? Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’? Who has put wisdom in the inward parts [3] or given understanding to the mind? [4] Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens, when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?

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