Pastor Annette's Blog
"OF ALL THE THINGS GOD HAS SHOWN ME, I CAN SPEAK BUT A LITTLE WORD NOT MORE THAN A HONEYBEE CAN CARRY AWAY ON ITS FOOT FROM AN OVERFLOWING JAR."
~ MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG, 13TH CENTURY MYSTIC |
"OF ALL THE THINGS GOD HAS SHOWN ME, I CAN SPEAK BUT A LITTLE WORD NOT MORE THAN A HONEYBEE CAN CARRY AWAY ON ITS FOOT FROM AN OVERFLOWING JAR."
~ MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG, 13TH CENTURY MYSTIC |
November 12, 2019
Beloved: A month ago I was so hot I thought I would surely melt into a puddle and promised I’d never complain about the cold. I didn’t expect to have to keep it BEFORE Thanksgiving! Eleven degrees at sunrise this morning. The chickens wouldn’t come out of the henhouse for new water, even though theirs was frozen. Not one squirrel is on the move in the canopy of branches, and the snow on my patio table measured three inches deep. And I am not complaining. I love winter for its own kind of warmness. Socks and sweaters and flannel sheets. We stay home when we get home and go to bed earlier. I sew and read more, since the only outside work we do as fast as we can. I’ve just started Moby Dick and am love, love, loving it. The hard part, of course, is loving winter five months from now, like loving summer in October. By then I’ll be sick of lugging my coat around and craving sandals instead of socks. Today it is easy to be present to the moment where the sun sparkles on the snow. Five months from now my floors and walls will sport the spray of a few hundred muddy dog shakes. And yet, to anticipate another moment’s disappointment is to live it twice — and to miss this moment’s blisses. I’m off to make my lunch now, and look out the window while I eat it. I pray this day’s beauty takes the edge off this day’s sorrow, wherever you may be. ~peace & prayers, pastor annette
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