Crazy Weather, Stark Realization

It's the second week of April and it's snowing. There is something wrong with that. It's supposed to be ending mud season and buds on the trees should begin showing. We're scheduled for 7-10" of snow today, and another bucket load of either snow or rain on Monday. What's wrong with the weather???

Yesterday was beautiful. Mud season had passed, the ground finally firm, and we could go outside with a sweater and be comfortable. Today outside is a cold mess.

Whenever I see crazy weather it reminds me that the earth is aging and all of this will pass away:

"But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginning of sorrows." (Mark 13:7-8)

"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner; but My salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will not be abolished." (Isaiah 51:6)

So even though I'm not crazy in love with snow in April, it's a good reminder for me that this life here is temporal and so I must be about the business God called me to. It fits right in with the last night's Bible Study topic from John Bevere's Driven By Eternity study. (Excellent study everyone should do.)

Essentially, this world is passing away, and we will all be held accountable for our actions when it does. Unbelievers will be judged according to what they did, but really stuck with was the clear truth that believers will be judged not according to what they did, but according to what they were supposed to do.

I don't even have to ask myself where I stand. I know. Shamefully. I am called to write and have been skirting it terribly, in favor of--ahem--blogging which is easier with quicker rewards.

It's time for this Building Brow to start building the right thing, so I'll now get off this post, let the snow in April remind me of my temporal status here, stop checking blog stats and whatnot, and get on with my business--home preschool my son, write another column, and edit a children's story.

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