The sweater under my jacket felt good, though it was not as cold as they had said it might be, and there was no wind, so the walking was quiet, and pleasant.
The snows in Philadelphia and Washington D C and surrounding areas that have shut down transportation, closed schools, and brought things nearly to a standstill reminds us again that there are cycles in weather. History teaches that.
But we want to be in charge. In many ways we do control weather. Take football, for instance, That used to be played in an open field under all kinds of weather conditions, rain, snow, cold etc. But now we have managed to control that situation, and today’s game is played in a nice, climate-controlled place, where no wind makes a thrown ball flutter or wobble, where no rain sullies the field, and no mud lies ready to sully or besmirch that clean uniform.
Given all that, I find reading Psalm 8 again wonderfully calming and faith-strengthening.
“When I consider your heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?
For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor”. Psalm 8, 3-5.
And such reading and meditation sets my mind at ease, for I too say with the Psalm, “O Lord, our God, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth”. V.9.
GPD 2/10/10
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