Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, based on the weather forecast it looks like we\u2019re going to get hit with a good bit of snow over the next day or so.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got sleet and rain now, to soon be followed by piles of the white stuff apparently.<\/p>\n
I have mixed emotions about this kind of weather Lord.\u00a0 On one hand it\u2019s a beautiful, cleansing white blanket laid over everything.\u00a0 It brings to mind thoughts of purity, and visually a fresh snowfall is one of my favorite sights to behold.<\/p>\n
On the other side of the coin, snowstorms make traveling more dangerous, can cause people to sustain injuries and make it difficult for the business community to function.\u00a0 It\u2019s not uncommon for power to be interrupted from weather-based damage, and those who are shut-in can easily become isolated from necessary services.\u00a0 For many, snowy weather brings on nothing but feelings of fear and frustration.<\/p>\n
Recently, another blogger posted on her site after a snowfall<\/a> that it reminded her of You.\u00a0 She said : \u201cWe come to Him dirty with all our messes and past mistakes and He washes us white as snow.\u201c<\/em> I love this analogy, and plan to focus on that thought when it starts falling.\u00a0 Thank you for the perspective Lisa<\/a>.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Heavenly Father, thank You for the Care and Spiritual Cleansing You bring to us each day.\u00a0 Please comfort those who are fearing the oncoming conditions, and let them feel the warmth of Your Protection.\u00a0 Help us all focus on the newness, and the beauty of this earthly blanket and not on the negatives that can cloud our vision.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, based on the weather forecast it looks like we\u2019re going to get hit with a good bit of snow over the next day or so.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got sleet and rain now, to soon be followed by piles of the white stuff apparently. I have mixed emotions about this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[859,404,851,865,852,516,107,48,866,27,54,856,546,150,6,42,858,523,857,860,58,52,864,55,587,26,853,46,854,850,482,662,498,855,240,863,861,135,862],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-a-moment-with-god","tag-analogy","tag-beautiful","tag-beauty","tag-blanket","tag-business","tag-care","tag-cleansing","tag-cloud","tag-comfort","tag-damage","tag-dangerous","tag-difficult","tag-emotions","tag-fear","tag-focus","tag-frustration","tag-injuries","tag-isolated","tag-messes","tag-mistakes","tag-negatives","tag-newness","tag-perspective","tag-power","tag-protection","tag-purity","tag-rain","tag-sights","tag-sleet","tag-snow","tag-snowfall","tag-snowstorm","tag-traveling","tag-vision","tag-warmth","tag-washes","tag-weather","tag-white"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-8j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}