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"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 |
Beloved:
35 degrees is a nice alternative to the “+2 but feels like -10” of last week. The sun is also shining, which always makes winter seem less hopeless. Some websites say big snow is coming by week’s end, but they’ve made such promises before so I try not to get my hopes up. The chickens loves this weather through and through. The colder it gets, the more they pile up in the henhouse. At +10 degrees they still sleep outside all night. I trek down there twice a day to trade their frozen bucket for thawed water. They drink and drink knowing it won’t stay thawed very long. In the afternoons I let them out to eat grass and snow. They stand on one foot to keep the other warm, like flamingos. One day I cooked them a pot of oatmeal and stirred in several sticks of string cheese. I should have made a movie of them eating – plunging their heads into the steamy cloud, pulling back the stretchy gooey oatsy cheese. The woods are bare as bones and I can see the junkyard cars glinting on the ridge. I pretend it’s jewels made just for us, else I get mad that they never clean it up. Anyway, I can only see it in the winter and I’ve gotten too lazy to complain. Some boys came over and split loads and loads of wood for when my husband’s out of town almost two whole weeks. I’ll be lonely but I'll be warm, so he’s still taking care of me while he’s gone. I like pretending winter is the warmest season, knowing only privileged people think so. Except for tending chickens I rarely spend more than five minutes outdoors. My garaged and heated car moves me from one heated building to another, where I am mostly sitting down and thinking about things. I sit and think and all the while wear soft, warm clothes with a blanket handy should there be a chill. So for all the people who know better – that winters like this winter are not the warmest season – let us give a thought.
God bless and be with them and with all the ones I left out. Should the weather get crazy again, stay home if you can and take care of your neighbors. ~ peace and prayers, pastor annette
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