Today I had lots of plans. Despite having heard the weather forecast for the last 3 days tell me it was going to snow heavily I didn't change them - mistake! My daughter's school is shut, my son is on a skiing holiday and has less snow in Austria than in my back garden and my husband has trudged the three miles to work looking like a yeti.
Should I complain? Not really. I've rearranged all my appointments for another day, eaten hot buttered toast, drank a huge mug of hot chocolate (fairly traded organic of course) and am still snuggled up in my fleecy robe. Not only this but I have spent a good deal of time watching the snow on the jasmin bush outside my window as it builds, builds, builds and then falls off in great sloppy dollops. Suddenly the plans are not so important. What is really crucial is the snow ball fight I plan to have with my daughter, the hours watching my garden transform into a glorious landscape of brilliant soft snow and the feeling of getting warm and dry after bulding 'Melinda the Snow Girl' (a promise made in a moment of weakness).
This is transcendance, this is a glimpse of the glory of God, this is a chance to say, 'stuff all those things I meant to do - today I connect with something more elemental today I will have fun!!'
I hope if you are in a snowy place today that you are safe and warm and that you have some fun.
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Brilliant
I wish I was building a snowman instead of sitting at my desk with slightly damp feet.
I enjoyed cycling to work through the snow (even with the odd slippery moment) and laughed and went "wahey!" quite loudly.
Another cyclist smiled at me which was great.
I love snow - snow is transcendent and takes us into another realm.
Ever seen the film of James Joyce's 'The Dead'?
It ends on someone staring out of a window at snow falling 'all across Ireland' in the darkness of the night, silently, almost unnoticed by people. All the human struggle and heartache is indoors, but all around is just pure white snow, snow, snow.
A bit like God's love maybe.
Melinda the Snow Girl is now born, with a frisbee for a hat, potato eyes, carrot nose and mouth and three things that hold your socks together in the washing machine for buttons. Our new next door neighbours were so impressed they took a picture! So something transcendant has helped us to make a connection with other human beings! Wahey to that!!
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