The Purpose of Snow
”You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
– Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company
With my apologies to all who have been negatively affected by the huge recent snowfalls, I have been blessed by the snow. The snow has allowed me (or forced me into) the opportunity of doing what I really needed to do, but would ordinarily be too busy to do. Being snowed in, has allowed me to think about my life without having to worry about doing as much in my life. It has allowed me to organize (file and trash) mounds of papers representing “one-of-these-days” ideas. It has given me the opportunity to plan ahead and begin a schedule for things I really want to do in this next year.
One of those things is this blog. Some of you know, that I’ve been stuck in the “going-to-write-a-blog stage” since Al Gore invented the internet. Well, thanks to the snow (and God who provided it!) I’m blogging. May this be the beginning of the end for many of my dreams. Lived-out goals are so much better (although messier) than fuzzy, never-going-to-get-there dreams.
This week, I’ll tell you about one of my really specific, but doable goals for 2010 that I need your help on.
So…what has the snow provided you the opportunity to begin (or do more of) that you ordinarily would not get to do?
–Pastor Matt
LOL!! Loved your “since Al Gore invented the internet” comment! Anyway, to answer your question, due to the snow I have been working tons of OT. Thanks to that, I am going to be able to pay off a large chunk of a bill I’ve been working on for a while now. :)
The past couple of weeks my family suffered a huge loss in the life of my nephew Jonathon Ford. He passed away in a car crash in Iowa. The funeral was on Wednesday – February 10th during the blizzard. A whirlwind funeral for a whirlwind life. He was busy, energetic, full of life, laughter and driven with a purpose for the Lord. May he rest in eternal peace and may the rest of us who were left behind find the purposes of our lives as he seemed to have done at such a young age. He was only 39 years old. It has forced me and my family to acknowledge our own mortality and what it is we are supposed to be doing here on this earth. Jon’s death brought home to me that life is indeed precious and death is permanent. Let us all remember to live as God intended for like the wind, no man can harness it and no man knows the day of his death. ECC8:8
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