Quick Note

Hi Friends!

Its Thursday. We just survived our first TX ice storm. They don't have salt trucks here, which seems weird - it also seems "right" because they wouldn't need them, but in my brain I think, "really?" - even though in Seattle we didn't have that many! So yesterday we got a day off of work and school. I don't know that in my 5 year collegiate history (8 if you count my years at Greenville) that I've ever had a day off school.

It was great.

I'm off to the ADPi chapter, but quickly, this morning as I was walking to work, and campus was thawing out - trees were dripping - in some places it seemed like rain! and animals were back out foraging for food, I was thinking of how God is present in every season and in places where we don't see winter or hibernation, we miss a small part of His nature.

This is how Nichole Nordemon describes God in the seasons. Enjoy for now and I love you!

Every evening sky, an invitation
To trace the patterned stars
And early in July, a celebration
For freedom that is ours

And I notice You In children’s games
In those who watch them from the shade
Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder
You are summer

And even when the trees have just surrendered
To the harvest time
Forfeiting their leaves in late September
And sending us inside
Still I notice You when change begins
And I am braced for colder winds
I will offer thanks for what has been
and what's to come
You are autumn

And everything in time and under heaven
Finally falls asleep
Wrapped in blankets white, all creation
Shivers underneath
And still I notice you
When branches crack
And in my breath on frosted glass
Even now in death,
You open doors for life to enter
You are winter

And everything that’s new has bravely surfaced
Teaching us to breathe
What was frozen through is newly purposed
Turning all things green

So it is with You
And how You make me new
With every season’s change
And so it will be
As You are re-creating me
Summer, autumn, winter, spring