We’ve got a blizzard headed our way tomorrow. Does anyone besides me remember reading about how Pa Ingalls got stuck in a blizzard on his way back from Mankato? He had to dig himself a little cave in the snow for protection and ended up eating all the candy he’d bought to bring home to the kids. I think of that sometimes when I’m sitting in my nice home drinking hot chocolate while the storm rages outside.

It’s a balmy 52 degrees today, and with a blizzard coming tomorrow, I’m inclined to agree with a friend of mine who said, “March is full of weather whiplash.” Indeed! When I got on the weather app for more information, I also found this important news:

So at least there’s that. I sort of feel like no matter how nice it is in March in Minnesota, the mosquito risk ought to be placed at ZERO. But there might be an exceptionally hardy breed of mosquitos out there that burst out of the starting gate when it gets up to 50 degrees. The chance of those mosquitos living through a blizzard though is ZERO. Equilibrium restored.

Quotes from the Commonplace Book

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you
if you realized how seldom they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.
Femininity is the warm response to sacrificial responsibility.
Douglas Wilson

Duties are ours.
Events are the Lord’s.
Samuel Rutherford

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to the be the will of God.
Jim Elliot

This is what the incarnation is all about – the author of the story becoming not just a character, but a human character. In this narrative, God is the storyteller and the main character. He is the bard and the hero. He authors the fairy tale and then comes to kill the dragon and get the girl.
Joe Rigney in the book Things of Earth

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