Greetings and Salutations,
Surprise, we still have snow on the ground in our neck of the woods. AND a lot of it. I can’t get a fix on just how much we have had – we measure after storms, but some snow has melted down to a degree and thus gives us false readings – but, it has to be almost three feet total. 
Probably as much as we had in 1996 and 1997’s 100 year storms.
Temperatures are low and are suppose to remain that way, so we are trusting that the run off will be minimal and the moisture will seep into the ground without causing flooding.
Our school district has closed the schools for snow days for 7 or 8 days, that has to be close if not a record. Today they started 2 hours later.
I can’t remember snow days in our schools growing up and neither do friends I have been in contact with, but then I was in Central Oregon where the snow is drier and people are more prepared for the weather.
The snow here can be very dangerous. It becomes very icy and slick. Even tire chains can sometimes not do the job.
Many of our back roads are narrow and very hilly. The county does a good job, but when you have snow after snow storms it is difficult to make the road safe; it just builds up with ice.
Through the years I had probably ‘investigated’ hundreds of accidents in this area due to the hazardous driving conditions.
Unless someone was injured or a serious violation occurred, we didn’t have the time to actually investigate the accidents, we just helped in the exchange of information; and went on to the next accident scene.
Those days, for me, are passed and to be honest, I don’t really miss that part of the job.
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Ephesians 3:19 KJV “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”
From my in-box today:
“Pentecost means that the Deity came to mankind to give Himself to man, that man might breathe Him in as he breathes in the air, that He might fill men. Dr. A. B. Simpson used an illustration which was about as good as any I ever heard. He said, "Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with the Christian."
We are filled unto the fullness of God, but, of course, we cannot contain all of God because God contains us; but we can have all of God that we can contain. If we only knew it, we could enlarge our vessel. The vessel gets bigger as we go on with God.” Tozer
The world is so large it is hard to fathom the size. There are so many people in the world we cannot comprehend what that means.
We can imagine, we can use examples, photos, testimonies of those that have traveled in many parts of the world and have seen hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered together, but even that pales in comparison to reality.
I can remember the Sunday School chorus, “How Great is our God, He’s the greatest God that ever was heard, He rolled back the water of the mighty Red Sea...”
God created the universe, even if we limit our ‘thinking’ of God to earth we are still not understanding just how Great our God really is; the vastness of our God.
We live our lives in our own neck of the woods, we work, play, eat, love and exist in a small part of the world – even if it means we travel to different parts of the states or even the world, we still only absorb a small sampling of life on our planet.
Unfortunately, we often treat God the same way. We limit Him to the things we know or are familiar with; we don’t comprehend the size of His love, grace, power or holiness.
We treat Him like He was a small part of our world, but haven’t the experience or knowledge to understand how big He really is or what He can do in our lives.
We have an idea of what He can do in our lives, but we limit Him with our knowledge of Him because we don’t understand what He is truly capable of doing.
However, as we learn more about Him, we can grow; we can learn more and more how to trust Him, how to understand that He will help us in all situations, and He will guide us in all our endeavors.
We need to trust the Holy Spirit. We need to study and listen and then allow Him to work in our lives.
The closer we get to Him, the better we can work with Him. When He tells us to do something we don’t need to have Him shout, just to quietly nudge us and we will respond to Him.
Many years ago, I had a suspect in a burglary that I was interviewing. I had made up my mind to arrest him and as I started to say he was under arrest another officer, my backup, started handcuffing him.
Later, I asked him how he knew that I was about to put the suspect under arrest – he said, “just before you arrest someone you rub your hands together and then tell him he is under arrest.”
I want to be so entuned with the Holy Spirit that I instinctively know when I need to do something for God, I want to be so close I can see what He means for me to do when He rubs His hands – and then do it.
Later, Art (-: