Weather! Whether or not, we have weather! Yesterday was my granddaughter's 15th birthday, but with icy road conditions in her Atlanta area she could not get out for the customary celebratory activities. When I called with birthday wishes, she was on her way to a neighbor friend's house to go "tubing" in the snow! Kids always find a way. The giant tubes made for wonderful sliding down the local hilly slopes.
Her brother, at college in even more snow with classes cancelled, was finding all kinds of ways to amuse himself, from riding in a "Hummer" that could navigate the roads, to getting action shots from the camera mounted on his football helmet as he rocketed and careened around, sledding and sliding.
No snow here, but, aching and stuffy, I braved the cold to go to the doctor. I told him I needed an antibiotic for sinus infection, but he said my symptoms could be from a virus that was going around. After blood work and x-ray, he concluded I had a "full-blown sinus infection," and wrote me a prescription. And I am already feeling better!
We are used to sometimes-severe winters in Oklahoma, but people in the south and deep south were immobilized. We had friends whose 2 1/2 hour trip stretched into 29 hours of stalled and sluggish traffic! Some people see changing weather patterns and climate change as "global warming," and others interpret them to be signs of the times.
As proof of the latter, I have heard quoted Daniel 2:21, which says, "And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:" But in the previous verse, in saying, "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his," Daniel is talking about the wisdom and attributes of God!
The Bible does say, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease," (Genesis 8:22), and that we are not to grow weary in well doing (Galatians 6:9). Psalm 104:19 assures us, "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down."
It sounds like God is in control, whether or not we have inconveniences and discomforts!
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