A Winter Prayer

As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,

summer and winter, day and night,

shall not cease.

--Genesis 8:22 

(New Revised Standard Version)

Sometimes, Father, frigid winter blankets my spirit. Gray days become a harsh and heavy burden. And then I remember how You promised Noah winter and summer, seedtime and harvest, day and night, cold and heat as long as the earth shall live. Help me to understand; the barren and difficult times are not a curse, but part of a blessing -- Your wonderful, ever changing gift: life.

Quoted in Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

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A Bit of Poetry about February

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.
     --from "The Garden Year" (1834) by Sara Coleridge


The following is a weather-related word game for you to play:

Can you change the word RAIN into the word SNOW in as few steps as possible? Change only one letter at a time, making a new word each time, and do not change the order of the letters from one step to the next. Proper names, slang, obsolete words and vulgar words are not allowed.