Sitting here looking outside at a beautiful snow covered landscape.  The Sky is a light blue with a hint of clouds streaking through it.

The sun is shining brightly on the snow, even though there are shadows from some of the clouds, it feels just right.

The trees covered with snow, the birds chirping away as they use the feeders, a cold winter day that looks like a postcard.

Getting ready for a cold night, because of the lack of clouds, we are supposed to see single digit temperatures and then low temperatures over the next week, looks like we won’t see anything above 30 for at least six days.  We shall see.

According to the latest news, we are reaching record breaking snow this year.  Among other things the length of time it is/will be on the ground, depth, etc.  Evidently these records go back to 1893, the community is one of the longest keeping of such records in our area.

I am not missing working in this, I must say.  I have spent many a day pushing cars and helping motorists as well as responding to the multitude of accidents and not really having time to do a good investigation.  Unless it was a major offense – reckless, drunk, suspended, etc - we just helped with the exchange of information and let the insurance companies figure it out.

People don’t use their heads, we had one young lady that parked her car in the south going lane on a very busy street, a couple of blocks from where she lived, because she had to go to Eugene the next day and she couldn’t park near her house and get out, it would have required digging in the snow for a parking space.

She was given a choice, move it now, or have it towed and be issued a citation – amazingly enough she was able to get it home.

I-84 was closed the next day, she wouldn’t have made it anyway.

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Galatians 3:26-28   For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

We make things so difficult.  We place people in categories by color, gender, political affiliation, country, city, rich, poor, nation, among just a few.

God doesn’t do that.  He doesn’t care about any of it; all He is concerned about is the heart; if it has been purified by the blood of Jesus and if we are willing to follow Him.

There are just two classifications as far as God is concerned.  The acceptance of His Son and recognition of Who He, is or the rejection of His Son.

While it may seem easier to live the way the world wants us to live, hoping that everything is fine and we fit in – there are always those that find fault, either as a group or individuals and we never ‘truly’ fit in with the world.

Oh, people may think they do, but one wrong thought or statement may exclude them from the very group they want to identify with.

God is all inclusive; for which I am eternally thankful.

His is the only group I am interested in.

Later, Art (-: