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…in everything give thanks<\/em>
\nFor this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.<\/em>
\nI Thessalonians 5:18<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning I was a wee bit discontent during my morning walk because it was 7:00 AM and still dark.<\/p>\n

I hate walking in the dark.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later the sun rose, and the temperature dipped, as it often does in the chilly, late autumn dawn. My hands were double-gloved, but they went numb in the cold.<\/p>\n

I hate it when my fingers go numb.<\/p>\n

To get my blood flowing, I walked faster. Pretty soon my hands warmed up and the sun rose higher, bright in the cloudless sky. The brightness made me squint, and my eyes started to water.<\/p>\n

I hate squinty, watery eyes.<\/p>\n

A little later, my path curved, and I no longer faced the sun. A peculiar scritchy, scratchy sound came from a nearby parking lot,so\u00a0 l turned to see what it was. A shivering young man was scraping the frost off the windshield of his car. For the first time in a long time, I thought of our years in South Dakota when we never had a garage.<\/p>\n

I hated scraping the windshield on frosty mornings before work in those days.<\/p>\n

Inside me, a voice whispered. You don\u2019t have to scrape windows anymore. You don\u2019t even have to leave home to work any more.<\/p>\n

I looked up and blinked. The sky was an intense, chilly October morning blue. The sun blazed bright and turn the thick carpet of frost into a field of glittering diamonds. The air smelled fresh, as satisfying as a drink of cold water on a hot day.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I was grateful for the\u00a0 still, chilly air stinging my cheeks. I was grateful for a sunny day after so many cloudy ones, grateful for this strange, cold month, grateful for a garage, grateful to the God who put me in this place on this day in this weather he had chosen.<\/p>\n

\u201cForgive me, Father,\u201d I whispered. Then I walked home, smiling and squinting at the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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