Saturday, December 18, 2021
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G g g g g good Morning!
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(It ain’t Vietnam!)
Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them ‘Humankind’ when they were created.
Jude 1:2
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
Words of Grace For Today
It’s c c c cold outside.
God created this?!
God created us to share one another’s company so that we could warm each other against the cold?
Would that even help in this cold of below -30⁰ C?
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Maybe a little, but certainly not enough, unless …
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unless one of us is able to plan and prepare and build a shelter that can be warmed by heating fuel to the burning point … safely.
So the wood stove gobbles up wood and produces heat, mostly safely (if one is particularly alert to the immediate dangers of burning the whole thing down or gassing the occupants with carbon monoxide or … well there is a whole host of dangers to be avoided while heating a stove to 400⁰C and a chimney to 2000⁰ C
and there are benefits, like sitting in a sauna after jumping through the ice into the lake.
Not that I have a sauna or a hole in the ice, nor the foolishness in these temperatures to jump in such a hole! But walking outside is bracing and then biting and then dangerous, so it’s nice to know the ‘wood eating monster’ has done it’s thing well and 40⁰C awaits me to warm up by. Of course the floor temperatures are anywhere from 20⁰ to 60⁰ cooler than at head level. At Advent we remember that God comes to level … well, this variation could use some levelling!
Still, we breathe and live, and marvel at systems that work in such cold were metal looses half its strength and oil congeals and skin freezes in minutes or seconds.
So we give thanks that God’s mercy, peace, and love are ours in abundance!
And we pray that they may be yours as well!