Snow Day

Dear Readers,

God bless you, your loved ones and your ministries today!

Do you remember how you felt when you were a kid and you had a day off from school because of snow?

When I was in seminary at Boston University we had 14" of snow on the first day of spring! BU closed and I had my homework done! I felt like a little kid, so I rounded up my friends to go outside and build a sculpture in the snow with me. Now when snow crazed seminarians build a snow sculpture, it's not your run of the mill snow man or even snow woman! We sculpted a lion and a lamb lying together in snow white bliss!

If you have ever lived in Boston or even visited Boston, you know that strangers on the street don't look at you, say nothing of speaking to you. My brother-in-law, who grew up in Boston, says that when other drivers in Boston give you the finger, it's just their way of saying, "Hi! How are you?"

But when we built our snow lion and lamb, our neighbor, who was walking by, stopped. looked and said, "Isaiah 11:6!"

We could hardly believe our eyes and ears!

He stayed and had a conversation with us for a few minutes. We learned that he was a student of Hebrew Studies at BU and lived 2 doors down from our brownstone, which served as the dormitory for Theology students. He was a very nice man.

What made him stop? Was it the fact that adults were playing in the snow? Was it the visual imagery from one of the most cherished scriptures in the Bible? Was it the Holy Spirit? Whatever it was, I'm glad he did, because it made an already wonderful memory even better.