Please permit me one more blog involving the visit with my Haitian friends: it appropriately involves thanksgiving. I am thankful that the snow that fell Monday night into Tuesday came then instead of four days earlier! 

We had a few inches of snow last week, but it didn’t prevent our getting to the memorial service on time, and Fort Collins, our destination, got hardly any. Not so this week when both Monument where I live and Fort Collins got 16+ inches.  

When my son Matt was a freshman in college, I flew him home to help judge the Math Olympiad I’ve written about before. It’s the only time in the history of the event that we had to postpone because of snow! So Matt missed it, and, contrary to the popular Colorado adage, “Don’t let the weather interfere with your plans,” sometimes it does.

So I am thankful for the good weather we had last week enabling us not only to get to the memorial service but also to visit Glen Eyrie, The Navigators’ Conference Center on Saturday, and our church on Sunday.

In everything give thanks… (1 Thessalonians 5.18)

He says to the snow, “Fall on the earth…” (Job 37.6, NIV)

He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. (Psalm 147.17, NIV)

Lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding. (Psalm 148.8, NIV)