[Magdalen] Snow in the Valley

[Ann Markle]

Thanks for this, Chad; I've already adapted it for Buffalo, and intend to
use it Sunday.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sun, 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
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