The Heat is On

 Dear Friends

Are you feeling the heat?  Are you going to Sizzler’s this week?

Talk about sunny side up! I wonder how long it would take for an egg on the sidewalk to become poached, or an egg still in the shell to become hard boiled. How about roasting marshmallows---easy! No stick or hanger or long fork required. Just drop the mini sized ones on the sidewalk, wait ten seconds, turn them over, wait ten more seconds, and then pop them in your mouth. Jesus may have changed water into wine, but this coming eight days in Corona, we can change iced tea into hot tea, change chocolate milk into hot chocolate…the possibilities are endless.

Well, in the meantime, may I suggest some hymns, actually Christmas carols, for this coming Sunday?

How about #110, “The snow lay on the ground”?  Or the first verse of #112:

In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood still as iron, water like a stone;

Snow had fallen snow on snow, snow on snow,

In the bleak mid-winter, long ago.*

And whatever else you do to cope this week, visualize and keep in mind this refrain: Let is snow, let it snow, let is snow. 

But while we are coping and waiting for cooler temperatures and perhaps praying for rain, we need to also be praying for those from Pakistan to Mississippi, where there is far too much rain, causing so much pain and suffering and death.

Finally, I am reminded of a lady who was asked what her favorite weather was. She said, "Next Tuesday", meaning that whatever each day brings, she embraces and makes the best of it. Talk about maintaining a positive attitude!

Lord, help me keep a positive attitude too.

John

*Many scholars, by the way, believe Jesus’ birth was in the spring.