Melting Away

Wow its been awhile, AGAIN!
Just had something trigger my blogging mind today. SNOW! It's a four-letter word for me I must admit. I've never really liked the cold weather but especially hated the snow. No reason except for the fact that it disrupts my schedule. Suddenly everything stops and I'm left to see what comes next based on something that is completely out of my control. SURELY I'm not a control freak! That's another blog for another day!
Just had a thought about the snow and what happens when it melts away. First of all, it comes to us sometimes with a lot of warning, and then there's nothing. And sometimes we get no warning, and there's a ton of it. And then sometimes it comes with lots of warning, and there's lots of it! I still look at the forecast in disgust and whine and cry about the way it has messed up my schedule. Then once it all melts away I'm left with the never ending mud outside my house and have to use the "redneck bridge" just to get through it and on with what life has for me to do.
But still, I am looking out the window at the most beautiful color of white as it falls down and lays on the ground before we dirty it up. And I must admit that because I might be a control freak, sometimes it takes something out of my control to make me stop and enjoy just being here. And for a little while the beautiful white covers up all of the mess and I'm given a break from the schedule. And when it all melts away i do find it a little sad how something so beautiful can become so yucky once it start to fade away. It gets yucky just because the earth is not so clean these days. It gets yucky because I drive over it. It gets yucky because someone else drives over it. It gets yucky because something really yucky happens when my dogs go out in it (and the goats, and cows, and birds, all animals who don't have the knowledge we have in order to keep it from getting yucky, although even with our knowledge we still get the snow yucky. At least the animals have an excuse of ignorance : ) )
BUT STILL, as it melts and as the mud comes and the redneck bridge moves a little under my cold feet, I still get across it and I still get to enjoy life after a break from it. The bridge may have holes, the bridge may be shaky, I may even have to hold on to someone to get across and they may even have to help me clean the mud off my shoes, or I may help them, but I still get through it with the tools God has provided for me when I choose to use them.
So no I'm still not a fan of snow, but I do see that if I choose to allow it to make me stop and look at things differently for a moment, then maybe the next time it snows it won't be so devastating to my schedule! I'll just take a deep breath, enjoy the break, and get energized to fight the mud once its melts away!