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Even though snow is never my weather-of-choice, except on Christmas Eve when a maximum of 2 inches of snow can settle upon the landscape to create a picturesque scene for 24 hours only, the dusting of white stuff that greeted me Monday morning, put me in a philosophical mood.<\/p>\n

I had just wrestled a new pair of gorilla treads onto my tennis shoes, and the tracks they created made me think of all the places I\u2019ve been in the past year. One year ago, I was walking on a motel treadmill in West Virginia before delivering my son to the PTSD outpatient clinic. This week, Allen is in Wisconsin speaking at an organic farming conference. What a great distance he\u2019s traveled, what a great distance our entire family has traveled, in the last 365 days. What a great God has guided us into this future we never expected.<\/p>\n

I passed our garage, marveling at God\u2019s faithful and unexpected work in our family, and a hole in the edge of the path I\u2019d shoveled caught my eye. There was another hole about 3 feet beyond it, and another and another, all three feet apart, connected by what looked like a miniature mole tunnel, until the tunnel reached the corner of our garage.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard about mouse tunnels in the snow, but this was the first one I\u2019d seen. I imagined the mouse busily excavating, then poking his head out for a breath of air, a progress check and a course correction. Then, down again to bravely plow through the darkness, until he found shelter from the storm.<\/p>\n

This picture doesn\u2019t do Mickey and Minnie\u2019s tunnel justice and the thought of mice camping in my garage sets my teeth on edge. But for a few moments, I identified with the mouse. After years of dark tunnels with small comfort and few answers, after infrequent breaths of hope, little progress, and a multitude of course corrections, we have found sweet shelter and joy in God\u2019s amazing healing and strength.<\/p>\n

Call me a softie, but tonight there\u2019s room for Mickey and Minnie in our garage…but if they get in the car again, they\u2019re dead meat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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