A world in white...

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.