Wintertime Blues!

Okay, here we are…it is Thursday afternoon. There hasn’t been school for three days now and I just found out there will not be school again tomorrow. Our four girls have been cooped up since Monday. They have not been out of the house, not even to play in the snow, until today when Jill went to work and I took Anna to the doctor as she has an ear infection. I know the Lord says that children are like arrows in the hands of a warrior and blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them (Psalm 127:4-5)…but please! I do not think Solomon wrote those words after having his arrows cooped up for three days! I love my children, and they love me…at least they did as of noon today…but I praise God that I have been able to get out of the house and slip and slide the eight blocks to church! I praise God for teachers…I don’t know how they do it. I praise God for bus drivers…I cannot imagine doing that. And yes, I praise God for my loving wife…how she manages a one year old who is cutting teeth, a four year-old who has too much energy, a six year-old who doesn’t feel well, and a seventeen year-old who wants to go somewhere, I will never know. My gifts pail in comparison to hers…I suspect she could manage a 1000 member church with little effort…alone. All that being said, I must go now...it's time to pray for a heat wave...again!