Winter Snow, Winter Slow

 The word “snow” gets our attention in the area where I live.    Schools close and organizations change their plans simply at the mention of the word.    Grocery stores run out of milk and bread as consumers prepare for the worst.

  

As I looked at the word “snow”  today, I noticed something about the word I had never noticed before.  If you take out the “n” in the word “snow” and replace it with a “L” it makes a new word:  “slow”.    Snow does slow us down and I am not just talking about our speed on the roads.  It slows down business and the day to day bustle we are all engaged in. 

There was a song that country music group Alabama sang a few years ago that has these words in its chorus:  "I’m in a hurry to get things done/  Oh I rush and rush till life’s no fun/ All I really got to do is live and die/  But I’m in a hurry and don’t know why.”      That chorus sums up life for many of us including this pastor.    I seem to stay in a hurry.  But then snow comes, and I slow.  I don’t know what you think, but I think that I need that every now and then.

It is not just my opinion that we need to slow down every now and then.  No,  it is God’s opinion too.  In Psalm 46:10, we read,  these words, 

¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:    Slow us down, Lord, to more fully feel the stirrings of your Spirit within us and around us;  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.