The last two days have seen about 18 inches of snowfall at Soggy Bottom. The snow is very dry and fine. Emily made snow angels and a snow fort, which immediately fell in on her. There are drifts on our property that are about four feet high. Mimi and I spent about two hours shoveling out the driveway. The county plowed the road early this evening.
Emily has missed two days of dance classes.
Needless to say, I have not been able to drive into my church office and I have been reading and writing at home. We had the same circumstances last week. I was actually finished with both my sermon and Sunday school lesson by 2:00 Saturday afternoon.
The snow has required us to rearrange our schedules, change our priorities, and do different kinds of work. Of course we still have the basic comforts of a heated house, electronic gadgets to work and play on. No one has to run out to the well and break through a thick layer of ice to fetch the water in wooden buckets. We also have one of those new fangled outhouses attached to the house. The only real things we might need to worry about are the loss of electricity and the propane bill next month.
It is normally very quiet where we live. With the snow it is almost silent. I do love it so. The snow, the shoveling, the silence are blessings that give my heart peace. And I pray the same for you:
The peace of winter
The peace of snowfall
The peace of silence
The peace of God
Drift deeply upon you and yours.
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