The Weather

Well I guess when one doesn't have much to talk about the weather is always a possibility. Now I could have chosen to not do a post this evening, but it being a quiet Friday evening and with me not having anything in particular to do, I decided to do a post. And also since I didn't have anything in particular to write about, the weather became the topic.

The weather is one of the topics that gets discussed by almost everyone almost everywhere one goes. And since the weather these days seems to be something quite out of the ordinary, it is surely the number one topic for people around here to discuss. Not that anyone can do anything at all about the weather, but we certainly have the option to discuss it whether we like it or not. Its just like soup - some like it hot, some like it cold, and some don't like it either way, which is my response to the weather. I say when its hot, I'll never complain about the cold, and when its cold, I'll never complain about the hot weather. Of course neither one turns out to be true.

According to the date of this post, it is February 6. The weather this time of the year should normally be sort of wintry - daytime temperature in the 40's quite cold at night, maybe even in the teens some. Last night I think we recorded about 41 and today it was around 70, depending on where one was. And of course it was windy - not breezy as they said it would be, but windy. By the way, I've often wondered where the line is between breezy and windy. I suppose the weather bureau has a statistic for that somewhere. Anyway, the temperature has been up and down like a yo yo for most of the winter it seems, and for a few days in a row here it has been up. I'm expecting it to go down soon, but maybe it won't go down too far again this winter. Hope, hope.

We have two sons, both of which live in Ohio. In talking to one last evening who lives near Cleveland, he said that they had gotten about another 12" of snow again, and it was still snowing. I don't remember how many times he has told me this winter that they had a foot of snow, but certainly more that once or twice. Our other son lives about 50 miles south of that and while they don't get as much snow there, they get enough snow and cold weather that he is quite tired of it all, to put it mildly. Some would say, if you don't like the weather where you live move to somewhere else, but most of the time that's easier said than done.

How would you order the weather if you had a say to it? If you think about that, you will probably conclude that ordering up the weather wouldn't be such an easy task. How would you like to have half of the people complaining about your weather one day, and the other half the next? We humans living here on earth probably have had more to do with the weather changes we often see than we might think. But ultimately our Creator, being in control of all things in this universe, and having set things in motion by His mighty power, will be the Decider when it comes to what the weather may or may not do. After all, God sees us only "as grasshoppers," as it said in my devotions this morning. And so who are we that He would pay any attention to our petty likes and dislikes?

So much for the weather. I know I can't do anything about the weather except decide to do the best I can with whatever comes, and try not to complain about it. After all, we have it quite good here in Kansas.

Pilgrim on the way