Snow, snow, snow. Had enough? I bet. A quiet week this past week, but FIVE TIMES in the previous two weeks? Enough already. Schools and businesses shut down; airports closed stranding travelers; icy highways like bumper-car rinks...boom, bang, bam. No church on Sunday for two weeks in a row - the few people who could get out of their driveways could not safely venture on to the streets. We were reduced to joining the congregation of the Church of the All-Seeing Eye. The words of the Psalmist came to mind: "[God] gives snow like wool...scatters frost like ashes."(1)

For the kids, the whole thing was a magnificent adventure. Since we in the Carolinas do not get snow very often, even a little arouses great anticipation. They were thrilled. I was not. When the snows began several weeks ago, w…