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It <\/span>Its main purpose on cement is to <\/span>This lasts until the first step on your Mountain <\/span>Snow is white. White isn’t beautiful. <\/span>Early man didn’t know snow was coming <\/span>We endure snow because we have no <\/span>This is what I think of snow. Not that I <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It snowed last night. Snow is a curse. Snow is evil. Snow is what happens when the atmosphere solidifies and falls on your head. Snow is Chicken Little’s justification. Snow falls from the heavens and smothers the earth. It is cold, wet, and slippery. There is no upside to walking in snow. It gets in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-comedy","category-news-and-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nsnowed last night. Snow is a curse. Snow is evil. Snow is what happens when the
\natmosphere solidifies and falls on your head. Snow is Chicken Little’s
\njustification. Snow falls from the heavens and smothers the earth. It is cold,
\nwet, and slippery. There is no upside to walking in snow. It gets in your shoes
\nand up your pant legs.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ndisguise the ice. Ice is snows evil twin. Those foolish enough to walk out in
\nsnow are sure to get too cocky and believe that walking from your front door to
\nyour car because, I don’t know, you have a life and actually have to go to
\nwork, is going to be as safe as yesterday’s walk was when it didn’t snow.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ntop step and you slip on the ice and go down hard. Usually this results in a
\nbroken wrist, cracked head or broken tailbone. How about that? An atmospheric
\nphenomenon destined to cause you to slip to the ground. Don’t talk to me about the
\nupside of snow. I don’t want to hear about skiing and snowboarding. Skiing is
\nharnessed slipping. Because you slip on snow we as humans decided to try and
\ncontain it.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nowning entrepreneurs were even more enterprising. If you come to my mountain
\nand slip on the snow, I’m going to charge you. Anyone who slips on purpose
\ndeserves a capitalist to, well, capitalize on your ignorance. Don’t tell me
\nsnow is beautiful. Flowers are beautiful, the sky is beautiful, and mountain
\nranges are beautiful. During a snowstorm, mountains and the sky become
\nundecipherable and the snow kills the colorful vegetation.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWhite is a non-color. The bible said before creation everything was dark.
\nDarkness is white without the sun. White is essentially colorless, it’s clear.
\nNo one finds beauty in clear. No one pines over the stunning color of Vaseline.
\nWhite is the color of a sheet of paper or a fresh canvas. The beauty isn’t in
\nthe lack of color it’s the potential that color is coming. We are going to
\npaint color onto the blankness and reveal beauty. White lies on the ground and
\nreminds us that one-day grass and flowers will return and beauty will reign.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbecause it’s a result of the fall. That’s why we say that snow is falling<\/i>. The original snow angels were
\nearly humans collapsing in the snow and in their death throes they began
\nthrashing around. People found them later, saw the angel shape in the snow and
\nfigured angels were laying on them trying to warm them up. Snow is like pain. Its
\nvalue is in teaching us that someday it will be gone. Someday a bright blue sky
\nand warm sun will return. Green grass and trees, flowers and birds are just
\naround the corner.<\/span><\/p>\n
\noption, but we trust God that the new season is coming. We thank Him for snow
\nbecause we know we are in His care even in dire circumstances. Snow is an
\nobject lesson in trudging through the worst of the journey in the firm belief
\nthere is a lodge waiting on the other side with a warm fire, a robe and
\nslippers and some hot cider.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nam poetic but instead I find myself freezing in the driveway shoveling it so we
\ncan go to church. This is a Christian’s version of pragmatism. If whining about
\nsnow is a sin, by turning it into a devotional I get paid and seem spiritual at
\nthe same time. How about that, snow does have an upside!<\/span><\/p>\n