Thoughts from Andy…
I've decided I'm not jealous of people who live in places like Los Angeles and Phoenix and Miami . Places where it's warm most of the time and everyone is fit and tan and happy. I've decided they should be jealous of me. At least, they should be jealous of me come April.
It's true, I wish it was a little warmer most of the time. I enjoy snow right through December. But once January's here, I get a little grouchy when the weather report calls for more than a dusting. I get tired of shoveling, tired of cold wet shoes, tired of drafts and cold wind and stomping my feet before I walk in the house only to somehow still track snow onto the carpet.
But it's temporary.
Sometime in April there will be a sunny, 70-degree day; the first one of the season. I'll hang the snow shovel on its hook knowing it will be there for several months. And I'll drive someplace with the window down. I'll turn up my music and wave at my neighbors who are planting their gardens and tending their lawns. And it'll feel like I'm being born all over again. If I lived in some tropical clime, I'd miss that annual reincarnation.
We recently studied the story of the Garden of Eden in the Genesis class. It made me wonder. What if Eve bit that apple because she was tired of living in Phoenix ? If that's the case, God most likely banished her to Indiana . And come April, she'll be cruising with her window down. ---Andy
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