There is nothing better in the life of a teacher than to awaken to a snow day...what bliss! No valid excuses not to de-stress. No valid excuses not to exercise!
I am watching the gently floating snowflakes as they descend outside my bedroom window. How fragile we all are...so marvelously created and delicately glued together and yet one cruel word, a withering look, an act of violence...and a fragile life is wounded, sometimes irreparably. These things are how many lose control of their lives with bad food, drugs, dangerous relationships and excesses of all kinds.
This snow day has come as a rare surprise. Our district follows a policy which allows parents to keep their children home if they decide weather is too bad or too risky. However, the district does not officially close, therefore guaranteeing additional funding. Whether or not the teachers can get to work safely is apparently of little or no consequence...a snow job, as it were...
Away with negative thinking...we own this snow day. There is much enjoyment and exercise, family joy and fellowship, quiet reflections, reading and delicious coffee.
The snow continues to fall and people are still fragile. We continue on our journey and with our struggles attached. But for just a few moments on a snow day, things slow down and we regain some balance. With grace and endurance, anything can be conquered on this frozen and slippery Friday in February. Stand outside in the gentle, frozen white and let the bits and delicate white graces from Heaven fall all over you...
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