Let me tell you, it isn’t so easy this winter living in Minnesota. The snow has dropped in record amounts, pretty much every other day through the short month of February, breaking all records. Another several inches fell over this weekend of heavy, wet snow.
The piles of snow are so high, it is almost impossible to fling the latest snowfall off the tip of our shovels to the top of the highest peaks. Our one-year-old grandson loves to watch the kids walking home from the school bus, waving to them excitedly. Last week the kids could not be seen in the streets. The snow is just too high. My husband and I went for a Sunday drive to get out of the house and drove around our favorite lake in the neighborhood in which we grew up. You guessed it. Couldn’t see the lake!
Sometimes it takes discipline to focus our minds on the blessings through the storms of life. I thank God for enough food and warm shelter to get us through a few more snow days. It is a blessing to know our loyal snowplow drivers and salt truck drivers will be out all night and, unlike other cities closing down after an inch or two, you will often find us out and about the day after a significant snowfall.
I thank God my husband can maneuver our over-sized snow blower, even though I do enjoy shoveling small amounts without those jumbo mountain peaks! Our city parkboard paves the paths so we can get out and enjoy the scenery of the land of 10,000 lakes.
Are there blessings you can count today? Sit and think about a few. It will give you a grateful heart. And our blessings come from God.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise His name. Psalm 100:4
Father,
We praise You for the blessings, for Your creation, for our daily bread, for our families, for our friends. Teach us to see little blessings through difficult days.
In Jesus name,
Amen
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