More of the same...

As we creep closer and closer to Holy Week, the snow is falling yet again. It seems that's all anyone is talking about these days--the weather. School has been canceled in Starbuck, but I don't think students are particularly excited about that. Apparently, it is even possible to get tired of snow days.

Edit: I stand corrected. It seems that most of the kids I've spoken with will taken whatever snow days they can get. It's only the adults who are tired of it.

There's probably something appropriate about this. Lent, after all, is supposed to last for 40 days, which is a biblical number that means, roughly, "a really long time" or "as long as it takes". Like the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the wilderness, or Noah and is family enduring 40 days and 40 nights of rain (and then having to wait for the waters to go back down), Lent is supposed to remind us that God comes to us in the midst of all our wilderness wanderings, however long they take. We rehears this every year--and it always ends with the joy of Easter, which far surpasses the patient (or impatient) waiting that has gone before it. And knowing that we can get through the 40 days of Lent--or the however-many days of snowfall--gives us the strength to face other challenges with hope.

~Pastor Sarah