[Magdalen] Snow in the Valley

[Grace Cangialosi]

...to say nothing of giraffes and penguins!

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Would she have created us if she didn't? Or hedgehogs? Or hippos?
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> LOVE IT!!
>> Aren't you glad God has a sense of humor?? (Uh...she does, doesn't she?)
>> 
>>>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:04 PM, "Charles Wohlers" <
>>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm in Mass., attending to the furnace here - and shoveling snow. The
>> snow is around waist-high on me, which is about 3-1/2 feet of snow, never
>> mind the huge piles thrown up by the plows. I usually would have daffodils
>> & such poking their heads up within the next week, but I don't think
>> that'll be happening this year.
>>> 
>>> Only a couple dozen at church this AM, where our priest read this prayer
>> which has been making the rounds:
>>> 
>>> Almighty God, who made the green grass on the Fenway, the blue waters of
>> Dorchester Bay and the tan sands on the Cape, we have a simple prayer:
>> Enough with the snow already. Whatever mysterious point you're making about
>> endurance, or patience or your own awesome power, we get it: we've endured,
>> we're plenty patient and we get that you can do the snow thing. And we know
>> that you know the old joke (since you know everything) about how if the
>> Pilgrims landed in Florida first this part of the country would never have
>> been settled, ha ha, but we love it here. We love the spring, especially on
>> Boston Common. We love the Fall, especially in the suburbs. And we love the
>> summer, especially on Cape Cod, on Cape Anne and on the South Shore. We
>> love all those beautiful parts of your world. But we've had it with the
>> snow. I mean, have you looked out my window? So we'd like to ask you to
>> stop sending us the snow. And, just to be clear, when we say snow we also
>> mean freezing rain, sleet, black ice, any kind of flurries and that new
>> creation of yours thundersnow, We promise we'll be good during Lent, we'll
>> be kind to one another, and won't ask for another thing, at least until the
>> Red Sox start to play. Amen.
>>> 
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> East Bridgewater, MA USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>