St. Paul is covered in snow today, a foot or so already and some inches to come. The Global Warming event planned by the good folks at Public Radio was cancelled. I guess there's nothing like the actual weather to get in the way of the best laid plans.The secret to handling a big, heavy, wet snow like this is to take it a little at a time. Some folks may look out the window and see the person pushing a shovel or walking behind a snowblower while the flakes are falling and think "What a fool". But the next morning when they're out there with an enormous shovelful and a later aching back they'll get the wisdom of lightening the load a bit at a time over taking one large painful scoop.
Same thing with sin, by the way, since I should be writing about something to tie this in to Lent. It takes us a while to get in to a sin and therefore a while to get out, a little at a time sometimes because it may be too much for us to handle at one time.
Ask me how I know this.
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This is the way we handled here in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, too, Father!
We have a single car garage and a 9-car driveway - so instead of waiting for all 14+ inches of it to get down and kill ourselves scraping it away, we took it easy, doing it several times 3-4 inches at a time.
Like the reference to sin being like a big pile-up of snow, too. Chipping away at it bit by bit is helpful, but more than anything else, it helps me to realize just exactly how much of it there really is - alot more than I realized!
You should hae better driving weather this weekend. Safe travels!
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