This morning there is a carpet of snow. Each branch, every car, all surfaces are top heavy with icing. Everyone who lives within a hundred miles is forced to deal with it if they want to step outside, or go anywhere. Sure, some have contracted with plowing companies to dig out their driveways, while others muscle through the slush on their
own. Some live in condos where snow removal falls to management. We are beholden to a generous neighbor who finished freeing his own cars and then leaned in to excavate ours.
Snow, indeed most weather, is an equal opportunity force. Your income, popularity ratings, age, or intelligence have no bearings when the flakes begin to fall.
The girls took the reprieve as an invitation to enjoy a movie. They described the plot to me which
involved a shuttle of astronauts. The team was scheduled to sleep for a hundred years while being transported to another planet for colonization. But for some reason, one man woke up prematurely. After wandering around in their capsule of paradise for a year... he got lonely.
And woke someone else up. You know, accidentally.
Human connection does seem to be the great equalizer. Introverts need less, extroverts more, but all of us
crave companionship. We hunger for relationships with the same urgency as food. Not because we deserve it, but to stave off death.
We arrive with empty palms, thirsty lips, and cavernous hearts aching to be filled. The incredible thing is, God provides all we desire. How else can He beckon us home?
Ho! Everyone who
thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
For as the rain comes down, and the
snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
-Isaiah 55
