Snow, snow, snow...that's all I heard the week leading up to Christmas. The local weatherman said all the players were on the field. I was so excited along with the rest of the Alabama crowd. I love the snow and everything it brings with it. The peacefulness, the excitement, the inner kid in an old woman (haha), just everything about the snow...I love it! Now, don't get me wrong, I would never want to live up north where they get tons and tons of snow. I don't want to see snow from December to March but I do love the occasional white stuff strategically placed in my yard.
As Christmas day approached my hopes for a white Christmas diminished pretty quickly. The front was a little farther north and all we would get was rain. As Gabe and I drove to the orthodontist on Christmas Eve Eve we talked about how our chance of snow was gone. I began to dream out loud of what a white Christmas would be like when Gabe encouraged me, "Mom, it could still happen...a white Christmas isn't completely out of the picture."
I about wrecked the truck turning to look at him and I began to explain how James Spann had said the front was too far north and blah blah blah (like he cared what the weather man said) and then he said it..."Well, who would have thought a virgin could give birth?!?!?!"
Ouch! What do you say to that? I had nothing. I was speechless. I basically crawled back into myself and drove on to the orthodontist's office in silence. Hmmmm...who would have thought?
How's your faith lately? Mine? Well, some days I think it's pretty good and then others I'm thinking not so much! How often do we pray for God to reveal himself to us, but we don't look for him? How many times do we walk by a bush and think "Why don't you speak through burning bushes anymore?" Truth of the matter is if I walked by a bush and that thing caught fire and I heard "Lori....Lori..." I would scream and run for the hills! How's my faith? I must honestly reply...lacking!
“'You don’t have enough faith,' Jesus told them. 'I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.'" Matthew 17:20 (NLT)
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